Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Paris: A Walking Tour -- Topographies of Power: The Semiotics of the Parisian Landscape -- Negotiating Life in the City -- New Promenades in the Aural Landscapes of Paris -- The Legacy of the Third Republic -- PART ONE: FORMING PUBLIC SPIRIT AND USEFUL CITIZENS -- 1 Use, the Useful, and Public Utility: A Theory of Musical Value -- Tensions between the Useful and the Beautiful -- Satisfying Social Needs and Creating the Nation -- Music as Utilité Publique -- 2 Reinscribing the Revolutionary Legacy -- Public Instruction of Mind and Heart -- Music in Public Festivals -- National Institutions -- Music, Character, and the Utility of Gender -- PART TWO: SHAPING JUDGMENT AND NATIONAL TASTE -- 3 Music as Political Culture: From Active Listening to Active Citizenship -- Political Legitimacy and Civic Society -- Republican Pedagogy, Cultural Integration, and Citizenship -- Performance and Public Taste under the Moral Order -- 4 Regenerating National Pride: Musical Progress and International Glory -- Moral and Musical Progress -- Exporting French Music and French Values -- Arts Policy and the Utility of Competition -- Contradictions and Paradoxes -- PART THREE: INSTITUTING REPUBLICAN CULTURE -- 5 Imagining a New Nation through Music: New Traditions, New History -- Enacting Change at Schools and the Opéra -- Reevaluating Luxury and the Question of Opera -- Renarrating the Revolution -- Reconceiving Music History -- 6 An Ideology of Diversity, Eclecticism, and Pleasure -- Cultivating Aesthetic Tolerance -- Redefining Music's Utilité Publique -- Exploring Uncharted Territory -- 7 Musical Hybridity and the Challenges of Colonialism -- Musical Fantasies Fueling Colonialist Desire -- Music and Colonial Assumptions -- Songs Inspiring Resistance.

8 Useful Distractions and Economic Liberalism in the Belle Epoque -- Department Stores -- Competition in the Musical World -- Expanded Performance Opportunities, Including for Women -- Theater and Popular Entertainment -- PART FOUR: SHIFTING NOTIONS OF UTILITY: BETWEEN THE NATION AND THE SELF -- 9 Music as Resistance and an Emerging Avant-garde -- Reviving Memory of the Ancien Régime -- Wagner's Threatening Allure -- Art beyond Politics, Music of and for the Mind -- Intuition and Radically New Concepts of Music -- 10 The Symbolic Utility of Music at the 1889 Universal Exhibition -- Republican Values on Display -- The Utility of Exotic Music -- The Exhibition in Retrospect -- 11 New Alliances and New Music -- Mandating Change -- The New Left's Hopes -- The New Right's Progressism in Politics and Music -- Revisiting Musique ancienne et moderne -- 12 The Dynamics of Identity and the Struggle for Distinction -- Race and French History -- Listening through Women -- Fusion versus Distinction -- From the Useful to the Healthy -- Coda -- Appendix A. Important Political and Musical Events in the Early Third Republic -- Appendix B. References in Ménestrel to Performances of French Operas Abroad, 1872-1888 -- Appendix C. Selected Publications on Revolutionary Music after 1870 -- List of Illustrations -- List of Musical Examples -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.