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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Timeline: Selective Chronology of Historical and Cultural Events, 1870–1939 xii
6. Introduction The Roles of Music and Culture in National Identity Formation 1
7. Part One Heroism, Art, and New Media: France and Identity Formation
8. 1 Unifying the French Nation: Savorgnan de Brazza and the Third Republic 15
9. 2 New Media, Source-Bonding, and Alienation: Listening at the 1889 Exposition Universelle 40
10. 3 Debussy and the Making of a musicien français: Pelléas, the Press, and World War I 58
11. 4 À bas Wagner!: The French Press Campaign against Wagner during World War I 77
12. Part Two Canon, Style, and Political Alignment
13. 5 D’Indy’s Beethoven 93
14. 6 Messidor: Republican Patriotism and the French Revolutionary Tradition in Third Republic Opera 112
15. 7 The Symphony and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century France 131
16. 8 Transcending the Word?: Religion and Music in Gauguin’s Quest for Abstraction 149
17. 9 Jolivet’s Search for a New French Voice: Spiritual “Otherness” in Mana (1935) 172
18. Part Three Regionalism
19. 10 Rameau in Late Nineteenth-Century Dijon: Memorial, Festival, Fiasco 195
20. 11 Becoming Alsatian: Anti-German and Pro-French Cultural Propaganda in Alsace, 1898–1914 215
21. 12 National Identity and the Double Border in Lorraine, 1870–1914 234
22. List of Contributors 251
23. Index 255