Laura Mason examines the shifting fortunes of singing as a political gesture to highlight the importance of popular culture to revolutionary politics. Arguing t
presented alongside those of sans-culottes; the histories of women, peasants, and the free blacks and slaves of Saint Domingue are represented, as are the testi
This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. Musical comedy in this form came in di