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Music for a "new era": Composers and national identity in France, 1936--1946.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Music for a "new era": Composers and national identity in France, 1936--1946./
Author:	Sprout, Leslie A.
Description:	427 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-01, Section: A, page: 0022.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-01A.
Subject:	Music. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3002272
ISBN:	0493113592

Music for a "new era": Composers and national identity in France, 1936--1946.
Sprout, Leslie A.

Music for a "new era": Composers and national identity in France, 1936--1946. - 427 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-01, Section: A, page: 0022.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2000.

This dissertation tells the story of an innovative program of state commissions to composers, from its beginnings with the prewar Popular Front government---which imagined arts funding as a form of unemployment compensation---to its expansion by the wartime Vichy regime, who saw control of the arts as the most expedient means of redefining France's cultural heritage. In 1938, the program's inaugural year, the government selected twelve composers who represented a wide range of stylistic approaches. Recipients included Germaine Tailleferre, Charles Koechlin, Paul Le Flem, and Darius Milhaud, whose commissioned opera Medee was performed at the Paris Opera two years later. Yet the number of commissions dwindled in 1939--1940 as arts funding gave way to military spending in response to the growing threat of a German invasion. After Hitler's swift defeat of the French army in June 1940, the Vichy regime saw the cultural prestige of the country as the salvation of France. The new state revived the commissions program and, using the Nazi Reichsmusikkammer as a model, created additional sources of funding for the publication, recording, and performance of contemporary French music both within France and abroad.

ISBN: 0493113592Subjects--Topical Terms:

516178
Music.

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