Overview
- Examines how fraternité was expressed through Amateur Musical Societies and Sports Clubs in France
- Offers extensive original research, using unpublished archives from eleven different regions
- Reveals how not only cooperation, but also competition and hostility, characterised these societies and clubs
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“This is an important study for anyone who wants to know the details of music-making and sports organizations in the French provinces. Relying on hitherto unexamined primary sources from all corners of France, Baker offers a dense, data-rich volume that will surely assist scholars who examine French culture and its influence on political thought and social practice in the period.” (Donna M. Di Grazia, H-France Review, Vol. 18 (102), May, 2018) “An exemplary match of extensive recovery, for the period 1848 -1914, of a massive array of archival data on amateur sports and musical associations from across France with profound understanding of their historiographical contexts and conceptual and practical links with the revolutionary concept of fraternity.” (Robin Butlin, University of Leeds, UK)
“A truly innovative book analysing French musical and sports societies through the lens of ‘fraternité’… Music historians have needed this study for a long time. Baker, a historical geographer, has done us proud.” (Katharine Ellis, University of Cambridge, UK)
“Alan Baker brings an original approach in historical geography. This is high-quality work on French cultural identity.” (Philippe Boulanger, University of Paris VIII, France)
“In this carefully researched, beautifully written volume, Baker demonstrates how the revolutionary ideal of fraternity and the related concept of sociability were continually reanimated byquotidian debates and practices in towns and villages across France.” (Michael Heffernan, University of Nottingham, UK)
“Bringing French sociability to life and countering long-standing assumptions about the primacy of French individualism, Baker has much of interest to tell us about the social role of voluntary associations in provincial France.” (John Merriman, Yale University, USA)
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Book Title: Amateur Musical Societies and Sports Clubs in Provincial France, 1848-1914
Book Subtitle: Harmony and Hostility
Authors: Alan R. H. Baker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57993-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57992-4Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86298-9Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57993-1Published: 14 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 350
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of France, Social History, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, History of Modern Europe, Cultural History