Title The Ballets russes and beyond : music and dance in belle-époque Paris / Davinia Caddy.

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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 237 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	New perspectives in music history and criticism ; 22
	New perspectives in music history and criticism ; 22.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Cover; The Ballets Russes and Beyond; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Examples; Figures; Note on presentation; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction: Le Génie de la danse; Period pleasure; Paris dancing; The Midas touch; Revisionism; Music and dance; Musicology and dance; A dual project; Suspended dualities; 2: Ballet at the Opéra and La Fête chez Thérèse; Backward glances: scene and narrative; Backbone: the score; Back-chat: music and drama; Comparing scores; Back to reality? A counter-narrative; Backing up (conclusion); 3: Nijinsky's Faune revisited; Synopsis; Illusionism.
	ContemporaneityThe audio-visual contract; A web of affinity; Disciplinary resistance (conclusion); 4: Metaphors of invasion: the Ballets Russes and the French press; Puff; Confronting the press; Cosmopolitics; La Saison russe: les ballets juifs; L'invasion des barbares; From cosmopolitisme through primitivisme; Tripatouillage; Metaphors of invasion; Bad press; Vers l'erreur (conclusion); 5: Beyond and behind Le Coq d'or; The origins of Le Coq d'or; Le Coq d'or in the press; Superposition; The French response: opera (and singing); Ballet (and gesture).
	The 'gesticulation' of opera: operatic performanceThe influence of music; Dance within opera; Opera-ballet; Danced opera; A trump card and a passport (conclusion); Select bibliography; Archives; French newspapers and journals; Books, articles and unpublished theses; Index.
Summary	A fresh perspective on the Ballets Russes, focusing on relations between music, dance and the cultural politics of belle-époque Paris.
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Subject	Ballets russes -- History.
	Ballets russes.
	History.
	Ballets russes.
	Ballet -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.
	Ballet.
	France -- Paris.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Dance -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.
	Dance.
	Music -- France -- Paris -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
	Music.
	Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic book.
	History.
	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Caddy, Davinia, 1980- Ballets russes and beyond. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107014404 (DLC) 2011035583 (OCoLC)753468463
ISBN	9781139380096 (electronic book)
	1139380095 (electronic book)
	9781139028189 (electronic book)
	1139028189 (electronic book)
	1139371819
	9781139371810
	9781139375801
	1139375806
	9781139377232
	113937723X
	9781107014404
	1107014409
	9781316623633 (paperback)
Standard No.	9786613633620

Title The Ballets russes and beyond : music and dance in belle-époque Paris / Davinia Caddy.

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