Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xii

List of Music Examples

pp xiii-xiv

List of Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Editorial Notes

pp xvii-xviii

List of Contributors

pp xix-xxii

Acknowledgements

pp xxiii-xxiv

Preface

pp xxv-xxvi

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - American liberté, sauvagerie and esclavage

pp 13-14

1 - Between Amérique and Colonial France: Revolutionary Tales of liberté and esclavage

pp 15-49

2 - Justamant’s Le Bossu and Depictions of Indigenous Americans in Nineteenth-Century French Ballet

pp 50-99

3 - Louisiana Imagined: Gender, Race and Slavery in Le Planteur (1839)

pp 100-146

Part II - Myths of America and Intersecting Identities

pp 147-148

4 - ‘Brise du Sud’: American Identity and War in the Popular Sheet Music of Francophone New Orleans

pp 149-171

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

pp 172-195

6 - Symphonies from the New World: The Myths and Realities of American Orchestral Music in France

pp 196-214

Part III - Soundscapes and Sonic Fantasies

pp 215-216

7 - Historical Acoustemology in the French Romantic Travelogue: Chateaubriand’s Sonic Imagining of the New World

pp 217-232

8 - La Liberté éclairant le monde: Transatlantic Soundscapes for the Statue of Liberty

pp 233-262

Part IV - America, Commodification and Race at the fin de siècle

pp 263-264

9 - Buffalo Bill and the Sound of America during the 1889 World’s Fair

pp 265-295

10 - Cakewalking in Paris: New Representations and Contexts of African American Culture

pp 296-328

Bibliography

pp 329-358

Index

pp 359-382

Music in Society and Culture

pp 383-383