TY - BOOK ID - 103601930 TI - Sacred sounds, secular spaces : transforming Catholicism through the music of Third-Republic Paris PY - 2021 SN - 9780197578056 0197578055 9780197578070 PB - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Church music KW - Sacred music KW - Catholic Church KW - History and criticism KW - France KW - History KW - Musique d'église KW - Musique religieuse KW - Church music. KW - Sacred music. KW - Église catholique KW - Histoire et critique KW - Catholic Church. KW - 1800-1940. KW - France. KW - Histoire KW - Music KW - Musique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103601930 AB - "This book is the first comprehensive study that reevaluates music's role in the relationship between the French state and the Catholic Church at the end of the nineteenth century. As the divide between Church and State widened on the political stage, more and more composers began writing religious-even liturgical-music for performance in decidedly secular venues, including popular cabaret theaters, prestigious opera houses, and international exhibitions: a trend that coincided with Pope Leo XIII's Ralliement politics that encouraged conservative Catholics to "rally" with the Republican government. But the idea of a musical Ralliement has largely gone unquestioned by historians and musicologists alike who have long accepted a somewhat simplistic epistemological position that emphasizes a sharp division between the Church and the "secular" Republic during this period. Drawing on extensive archival research, critical reception studies, and musical analysis, this book reveals how composers and critics from often opposing ideological factions undermined the secular/sacred binary. From the opera house and niche puppet theaters to Parisian parish churches and Montmartre's famed cabarets, composers and critics from opposing ideological factions used music in their effort to craft a brand of Frenchness that was built on the dual foundations of secular Republicanism and the heritage of the French Catholic Church"-- ER -