5 ‘The Most Seductive Creole Indolence’: Louis Moreau Gottschalk in the French Press

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Music Examples xiii
5. List of Abbreviations xv
6. Editorial Notes xvii
7. List of Contributors xix
8. Acknowledgements xxiii
9. Preface xxv
10. Introduction 1
11. Part I. American liberté, sauvagerie and esclavage
12. 1 Between Amérique and Colonial France: Revolutionary Tales of liberté and esclavage 15
13. 2 Justamant’s Le Bossu and Depictions of Indigenous Americans in Nineteenth-Century French Ballet 50
14. 3 Louisiana Imagined: Gender, Race and Slavery in Le Planteur (1839) 100
15. Part II. Myths of America and Intersecting Identities
16. 4 ‘Brise du Sud’: American Identity and War in the Popular Sheet Music of Francophone New Orleans 149
17. 5 ‘The Most Seductive Creole Indolence’: Louis Moreau Gottschalk in the French Press 172
18. 6 Symphonies from the New World: The Myths and Realities of American Orchestral Music in France 196
19. Part III. Soundscapes and Sonic Fantasies
20. 7 Historical Acoustemology in the French Romantic Travelogue: Chateaubriand’s Sonic Imagining of the New World 217
21. 8 La Liberté éclairant le monde: Transatlantic Soundscapes for the Statue of Liberty 233
22. Part IV. America, Commodification and Race at the fin de siècle
23. 9 Buffalo Bill and the Sound of America during the 1889 World’s Fair 265
24. 10 Cakewalking in Paris: New Representations and Contexts of African American Culture 296
25. Bibliography 329
26. Index 359