Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-338) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The Role of Criticism in Interwar Musical Culture / Christopher Moore and Barbara L. Kelly -- Music Criticism and Aesthetics during the Interwar Period: Fewer Crimes and More Punishments / Michel Duchesneau -- Nostalgia and Violence in the Music Criticism of L'Action francʹaise / Christopher Moore -- Charles Koechlin: The Figure of the Expert / Philippe Cathe -- Bleu-horizon Politics and Music for Radio Listeners: L'Initiation a la musique (1935) / Jann Pasler -- Common Canon, Conflicting Ideologies: Music Criticism in Performance in Interwar France / Barbara L. Kelly -- Arthur Honegger: Music Critic for Musique et Theatre (1925-1926) / Pascal Lecroart -- A Woman's Critical Voice: Nadia Boulanger and Le Monde musical, 1919-1923 / Kimberly Francis -- From a Foreign Correspondent: the Parisian Chronicles of Alejo Carpentier / Caroline Rae -- Debussy's 'Reputational Entrepreneurs': Vuillermoz, Koechlin, Laloy, and Vallas / Marianne Wheeldon -- The Legacy of War: Conceptualising Wartime Musical Life in the Post-War Musical Press, 1919-1920 / Rachel Moore -- Satie, Relache and the Press: Controversies and Legacy / Jacinthe Harbec -- Creating a Canon: Emile Vuillermoz's Musiques d'aujourd'hui and French Musical Modernity / Danick Trottier.
Summary:
This collection uncovers how music criticism contributed to national and transnational preoccupations and agendas.
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