Disinformation in mass media Gluck, Piccinni and the Journal de Paris
The Cast and Setting -- Arnaud's Correspondence to Italy -- The Journal de Paris on the Offensive -- Libel of La Harpe by Allusion -- The Armide Episode -- Piccinni's Opera and Further Events -- Disinterested Observers -- Profit and Power
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London ; New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Royal Musical Association monographs
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The Cast and Setting -- Arnaud's Correspondence to Italy -- The Journal de Paris on the Offensive -- Libel of La Harpe by Allusion -- The Armide Episode -- Piccinni's Opera and Further Events -- Disinterested Observers -- Profit and Power "The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France's first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division. To attract a large readership and bar competition for C. W. Gluck's works at the Paris Opéra, it launched a prolonged campaign of anonymous lies, mockery and defamation against two prominent members of the Académie Française who wished the Opéra to be open to all deserving composers, but lacked a comparable daily forum with which to defend themselves. In this unique episode, music served as a smokescreen for nefarious activity. No musical knowledge is necessary to follow this purely political drama, in which the tactics employed bear a remarkable resemblance to current events"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Rezensiert in: The musical times 162 (2021), 1956, Seite 116-119 (Andrew Thomson) Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | x, 134 Seiten Illustrationen, Poträts, Notenbeispiel |
| ISBN: | 9780367350178 978-0-367-35017-8 |