H2020Индивидуална стипендия2018–2020

Aural Paris · The Changing Identities of The City of Sound in Music, Film and Literature, 1870-1940.

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2018-09-01 → 2020-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 173 076 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Звуците на Париж между 1870 и 1940 г. се анализират чрез музика, филми и литература. Това помага да се разбере как градската среда и шумът са формирали френската идентичност и националното самочувствие през този период.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Aural Paris: The Changing Identities of The City of Sound in Music, Film and Literature, 1870-1940.

‘Aural Paris: The Changing Identities of The City of Sound in Music, Film and Literature, 1870-1940’ received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 750086. The researcher was hosted between September 2018 and August 2020 by the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. This project investigated the creative responses to the sounds of the city of Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Few cities accumulated the artistic power that Paris held during this period. This cultural hegemony, however, started to dilute as the 20th century unfolded, creating a deep sense of loss and nostalgia palpable in the writings and songs of the 1930s that conform the latest body of work analysed in this study. The changing landscape of the city is the background to this project, which considered how the sonic fabric of the urban context was conceptualised as a defining characteristic of Frenchness. The study thus addressed the dichotomy of Paris as a city of sound versus Paris as a village of music, two approaches clearly distinguishable in the politics of the modern city during the Third Republic. The inauguration and decline of this political cycle also find parallels in musical terms: just as a new era had opened up in 1871 with the foundation of the Société nationale de musique, the group of avant-garde composers Jeune France renovated French musical language in the 1930s. The main objectives of the project were: 1. To investigate the role that sound played in the construction of a Parisian/French identity during the Third Republic. 2. To shed new light on scarcely analysed archival sources. 3. To study the capacity of artistic representations of the city to become part of ‘the case’ and to blur fiction and reality in life-writing. 4. To test a theory of modernist sound ecology alongside established notions of the urban nature of art in fields such as painting, literature and film. 5. To disseminate musicological scholarship amongst different audiences in order to foster new ways of thinking about the urban environment and its soundscape. 6. To contribute to the recent ‘history of the senses’ trend in urban studies by overcoming the visual focus of this field and analysing the site-specificity of French art during the Third Republic.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This project examines the creative assimilation of the city of Paris into the music, film and literature of the French Third Republic (1870-1940). In this period, demarcated by two war defeats, France had to find its new place within global politics, and the arts participated vividly in these debates. As the city of Paris changed rapidly from a world-leading metropolis to an impoverished city in need of architectural, political and moral reconstruction, its symbols acquired different connotations. This changing backdrop offers the ground for the study, which analyses how singer/songwriters, composers, authors and filmmakers —such as Victor Fournel, Aristide Bruant, Jean Cocteau, Gustave Charpentier, René Clair and Pierre Mac Orlan— used the city and its sounds as creative force and political metaphor. The study of overlooked, or totally ignored, archival sources and cultural artefacts will enlighten our knowledge of how street culture and city life intersected with art. The proposed research plan analyses ‘panoramic literature’ in the late 19th century, the development of the city as a musical stage, the corpus of compositions about Paris, street music and sound in the transition from silent to sound cinema, and the composition of populist Parisian songs by authors of urban life-writing. The project allows us to re-evaluate the politics of the city soundscape and its role in defining French identity. It also reassesses established notions of modernity and its interaction with the urban context though the study of everyday sounds and music. By embracing novel ecomusicological methodologies, this project is timely in joining current debates within musicology and cultural geography on the capacities of sound to produce a sense of space and place. The research will create orthodox academic outputs, exploit novel dissemination and communication strategies, and consolidate an international interdisciplinary network on urban musicology.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES · ParisКоординаторФранция