| Titre | Style musical et enjeux politiques en France à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. | |
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| Auteur | Jane F. Fulcher. | |
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Revue | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales |
| Numéro | no 110, décembre 1995 Musique et musiciens | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Musique et musiciens |
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| Résumé | Beethoven et l'invention du génie Beethoven est souvent décrit comme le génie de la culture européenne et comme un révolutionnaire de la musique. Ce | |
| Résumé anglais | Musical Style, Meaning, and Politics This article concerns both how and why French music was pulled into the political-cultural battle between the Popular Front and its opponents in the later 1930s. It explores the way in which the new government used music as a political tool, as it became a major source of support for composers in a period of harsh economie depression. The Popular Front was able to recruit important French musicians and, it was through their roles in major musical institutions, as well as through their discourse, that they helped redefme aesthetic legitimacy. A major concern of the article is thus the sources of the musical values, models, and genres now being promoted and perceived as part of the new ideology : it demonstrates that its roots, as well as the political use of French musical culture, may be found in the period after the Dreyfus Affair, went Rightest leagues launched a "cultural war". Similarly, it examines how the pro-fascist Right in France turned to the musical discourse originally developed by a member of the "Ligue de la Patrie Francaise", Vincent d'Indy. This "Romantic" discourse was propagated not only in the pro-fascist press, but in its supporting cultural organi-zations, which sponsored both concerts and lectures on music. Hence the article examines the major critics in pro-fascist journals, as well as analyzing their discourse and how it was diffused in the French musical press. Finally, it relates the shifting hegemony in French music in the later 1930s to the growing rejection of the political and cultural values of the Third Republic. | |
| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/arss_0335-5322_1995_num_110_1_3159 |
