City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the odium of the bourgeois with its distinctive sounds. Street vendors bellowed songs known as the Cris de Paris that had been associated with their trades since the Middle Ages; musicians itinerant and otherwise played for chan≥ and fl'neurs-writers, fascinated with the city's underside, listened and recorded much about what they heard. Aimée Boutin...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0252039211
ISBN13:9780252039218
Release Date:May 2015
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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