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Title: | Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris | Volume: |
| Author(s): | Robert Darnton |
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| Publisher: | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | City: | |
| Year: | 2010 | Edition: | First Edition |
| Language: | English | Pages (biblio\tech): | 233\233 |
| ISBN: | 0674057155, 9780674057159 | ID: | 727025 |
| Time added: | 2012-02-04 16:00:00 | Time modified: | 2016-03-20 07:50:50 |
| Library: | | Library issue: | 2011 12 30 |
| Size: | 668 kB (683921 bytes) | Extension: | pdf |
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| Listen to "An Electronic Cabaret: Paris Street Songs, 1748–50" for songs from Poetry and the Police Audio recording copyright © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. In spring 1749, Fran?ois Bonis, a medical student in Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for distributing an “abominable poem about the king.” So began the Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown on ordinary citizens for unauthorized poetry recitals. Why was the official response to these poems so intense? In this captivating book, Robert Darnton follows the poems as they passed through several media: copied on scraps of paper, dictated from one person to another, memorized and declaimed to an audience. But the most effective dispersal occurred through music, when poems were sung to familiar tunes. Lyrics often referred to current events or revealed popular attitudes toward the royal court. The songs provided a running commentary on public affairs, and Darnton brilliantly traces how the lyrics fit into song cycles that carried messages through the streets of Paris during a period of rising discontent. He uncovers a complex communication network, illuminating the way information circulated in a semi-literate society. This lucid and entertaining book reminds us of both the importance of oral exchanges in the history of communication and the power of “viral” networks long before our internet age. (20100915) |
Table of contents :
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
1. Policing a Poem......Page 16
2. A Conundrum......Page 21
3. A Communication Network......Page 24
4. Ideological Danger?......Page 31
5. Court Politics......Page 40
6. Crime and Punishment......Page 46
7. A Missing Dimension......Page 49
8. The Larger Context......Page 54
9. Poetry and Politics......Page 65
10. Song......Page 75
11. Music......Page 88
12. Chansonniers......Page 112
13. Reception......Page 127
14. A Diagnosis......Page 133
15. Public Opinion......Page 138
Conclusion......Page 149
The Songs and Poems Distributed by the Fourteen......Page 156
Texts of “Qu’une bâtarde de catin”......Page 167
Poetry and the Fall of Maurepas......Page 171
The Trail of the Fourteen......Page 174
The Popularity of Tunes......Page 178
An Electronic Cabaret: Paris Street Songs, 1748–1750......Page 183
Notes......Page 198
Index......Page 220
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