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  title info:
    title: From servant to savant
    sub title: musical privilege, property, and the French Revolution
  name:
    name part: Geoffroy-Schwinden, Rebecca Dowd
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 313 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
  abstract: From Servant to Savant exposes the fundamental role that the French Revolution played in the emergence of modern professional musicianship and music historiography. Like other arts and trades in Old Regime Paris, music professionalized under a system that regulated activities through legal permissions called privilèges. Musicians learned to work within the privilege system to elevate their legal and social status by the eve of Revolution. But the Revolution's Abolition of Privilege on August 4th, 1789, overthrew this feudal order and set in its place a modern property regime requiring strict delineation between public and private property. Geoffroy-Schwinden reveals the profound musical consequences of this reckoning. Before the Revolution, music was an activity that required permission, after, it was an object that could be possessed. Everyone seemingly hoped to gain something from owning music-musicians claimed it as their unalienable personal expression while the French nation sought to enhance imperial ambitions by appropriating it as the collective product of cultural heritage and national industry. Musicians capitalized on these changes to protect their professionalization within new laws and institutions while excluding those without credentials from their elite echelon. As musicians and the government negotiated the place of music in a reimagined French society, new epistemic and professional practices constituted three lasting values of musical production, the composer's sovereignty, the musical work's inviolability and the nation's supremacy. From Servant to Savant thus demonstrates how the French Revolution set the stage for the emergence of so-called musical "Romanticism" and its legacies that continue to haunt musical institutions and industries.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part I. Musical privilege ; Legal privilège and musical production ; Social privilège and musician-Masons -- Part II. Property ; Private property : music and authorship ; Public servants ; Cultural heritage : music as work of art ; National industry : music as a "useful" art and science ; Postlude : a "detractor" breaks his "silence" -- Conclusion : privilege by any other name.
  note: Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: Music
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: France
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Musicians
    geographic: France
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 18th century
  subject:
    topic: Musicians
    geographic: France
    topic: Economic conditions
    temporal: 18th century
  classification: ML3917.F8 G46 2022
  classification: 306.4/8420944
  identifier: 9780197511510
  identifier: 0197511511
  identifier: 9780197511534
  identifier: 2021033795
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210708
    record change date: 20240112151405.6
    record identifier: in00004763485