IEA

Fellowship time: January to June 2010

Research project:
" Music, race and Colonialism in Fin-de-siècle France "

Abstract :
My book will show how music has helped shape French attitudes towards the concept of race and legitimize the colonial process. It presents a dialectical relationship between the concern for the French national identity in France and the realities of life overseas. The first two parts examine how music, instruments and concerts have helped raise awareness of the French positions on race and nation, in promoting regional differences or national unity, foreign alliances or racial distinctions. The third part shows that musical life in Algiers, Saigon-Hanoi - with their schools, their missions, public parks, theaters and their repertoire played in their concerts - helped to ensure coherence between Occidentals, but also questioned the assimilation process by reinforcing a distinction between colonizers and colonized. Musical culture has fed Republican imperialism while expressing its contradictions-interrogation whose relevance goes far beyond the French empire.

Biographical elements:

Musicologist (thesis at the University of Chicago in 1981) and professor at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) Jann Pasler has published numerous articles on contemporary American music, French music, modernism, post - Modernism and cultural life in Paris in the nineteenth and twentieth century. In 2005, her article, The Utility of Musical Instruments in the Racial and Colonial Agendas of Late Nineteenth-Century France, received the award Colin Slim of the American Musicological Association (Class Senior scholar). She recently published Writing through Music (Oxford University Press, November 2007) and Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France (University of California Press, Spring 2009).

Publications:

BOOKS

Debussy, Stravinsky, and the Ballets Russes: The Emergence of a New Musical Logic, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1981

(editor) Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and Modernist, University of California Press, 1986 (380 pages); PAPERBACK EDITION, 1988.
REVIEWS: JAMS (fall 1988): 547-558; Times Literary Supplement (13 February 1987); Perspectives of New Music (winter 1989): 246-262; Musical Times (May 1987): 269; Journal of Music Theory 34,1 (Spring 1990): 120-130.

Writing through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2008 (published November 2007)

Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France (University of California Press, May 2009)

Radio programs on Composing the Citizen:
"Note contre note avec Martine Kaufmann," Radio France Musique (18 December 2009)
(90 minutes)
"Opéra du Samedi," Radio Canada, with Sylvia Ecuyer (27 March 2010)

Music, Race, and Colonialism in France, 1880-1920 (in preparation)

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

(writer, director, producer, videographer). Taksu: Music in the Life of Bali,
a video documentary, 24 minutes, completed March 1991.
VHS, 1991-2004 distributed to the educational market worldwide by the University of California Extension Media Center
DVD and VHS: 2004- distributed to the educational market worldwide by Berkeley Media

AWARDS: Association for Asian Studies National Meeting, Washington, DC (March 1992);
Louisville Film and Video Festival Honorable Mention and Juror’s Merit Award (June 1992);
Eighth Annual International Women’s Films and Video Festival Award;
numerous other festivals and exhibitions including the "Court Arts of Indonesia" exhibition at the Arthur Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (1991);
excerpts included in the CD-ROM World Beat (Medio Multimedia, 1994)
REVIEWS: Notes of the Music Library Association (September 1994): 264-66.

(writer, director, producer, videographer). The Great Ceremony to Straighten the World,
a video documentary, 55 minutes, completed July 1994.
VHS, 1991-2004 distributed to the educational market worldwide by the University of California Extension Media Center
DVD and VHS: 2004- distributed to the educational market worldwide by Berkeley Media

AWARDS: Association for Asian Studies National Meeting honoree, Washington DC (April 1995); selection of the American Anthropological Society Annual Meeting and the Visual Anthropology Film and Video Festival, Washington DC (November 1995)

(interviewee) UCSD Conversations: Steinberg, Pasler, Deverell show ID # 1562, 60 minutes, broadcast numerous times on UCSD-TV

RESEARCH ARTICLES (REFEREED)

"Mélisande’s Charm and the Truth of her Music," in Debussy Perspectives, ed. Elliott Antokoletz and Marianne Wheeldon, under review
"Experiencing Time in the Quartet for the End of Time," in La la la Maistre Henry. Mélanges de musicologie en hommage à Henri Vanhulst, ed. Valerie Dufour (Turnhout: Brepols, Collection musical, 2009)
"Politics, Biblical Debates, and Judith in French Dramatic Music after 1870," in The Sword of Judith: Essays, Sources, Images, ed. Henrike Lahnemann, Elena Ciletti, John Nassichuck (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2009)
"Politique nationale et esthétique française dans les cantates du prix de Rome (1870-1900), Le Prix de Rome de Musique (1803-1968) ed. Alexandre Dratwicki and Julia Lu (Lyon: Symmétrie, 2009) (in press)
"Theorizing Race in 19th-century France: Music as Emblem of Identity," Musical Quarterly 89, 4 (Winter 2006): 459-504.
"Political Anxieties and Musical Reception: Japonisme and the Problem of Assimilation," Madama Butterfly: L’orientalisme di fine secolo, l’approccio pucciniano, la ricezione (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2008), 17-53.
"Four organizations, four agendas: Expanding the public for serious music in late 19th-century Paris," Organisateurs et formes d’organisation du concert institutionnalisation et pratiques, eds. Hans Erich Bödeker and Patrice Veit (Berlin: Berliner Wissensschafts-Verlag, 2008), 333-56.
"A Nordic Link to the Parisian Avant-garde, 1902-08, " in France in Nordic Music, ed. Anders Edling (London: Toccata Press), in press.
"Magnus Synnestvedt: Les goûts musicaux d’un intermédiaire culturel et ami de l’avant-garde parisienne, 1902-1908," in La France dans la musique nordique, eds. Jean Gribenski, Daniel Grimley, Helena Tyrväinen (Liège: Mardaga), in press.
"Race and Nation: Musical Acclimatization and the Chansons Populaires in Third Republic France," Western Music and Race, ed. Julie Brown (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 147-67.

AWARD: American Musicological Society, Ruth Solie award for the best collected volume in musicology, 2007

"A Sociology of les Apaches: Sacred Battalion for Pelléas," Berlioz and Debussy: sources, contexts and legacies, ed. Barbara Kelly and Kerry Murphy (London: Ashgate, 2007), 148-166.
"Deconstructing d’Indy, or the problem of a composer’s reputation" 19th-Century Music, 30, 3 (spring 2007): 230-56.
"Une nouvelle écoute de la Révolution au début de la Troisième République" in Melpomène: Musique, esthétique et société en France au XIXe siècle, ed. Damien Colas, Florence Gétreau, Malou Haine (Liège: Mardaga, 2007), 199-216.
"Democracy, Ethics, and Commerce: the Concerts populaires Movement in the late 19th-century France," in Les Sociétés de musique en Europe, 1700-1920. Structures, pratiques musicales et sociabilités, eds. Hans Erich Bödeker, Patrice Veit (Berlin: Berliner Wissensschafts-Verlag, 2007), 455-479.
"Contingencies of Meaning in Transcriptions and Excerpts: Popularizing Samson et Dalila," in Approaches to Meaning in Music, ed. Byron Almén and Edward Pearsall (Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2006), 170-213.
"Boretzian Discourse and History," Perspectives of New Music vol. 43, no. 2 (summer 2005/winter 2006), 177-191.
"Déconstruire d’Indy," Revue de musicologie 2 (2005), 369-400.
"State Politics and the ’French’ Aesthetics of the Prix-de-Rome cantatas, 1870-1900," Musical Education in Europe (1770-1914): Compositional, Institutional and Political Challenges, vol. 2, ed. Michel Noiray and Michael Fend (Berlin: Berliner Wissensschafts-Verlag, 2005), 585-622.
"Resituating the Spectral Revolution: French Antecedents and the Dialectic of Discontinuity and Continuity in Debussy’s Jeux" in Aspects of Time in the Creation of Music, a special issue of Musicae Scientiae 3 (2004) ed. Irene Deliège and Max Paddison (Liege, Belgium, 2004), 125-140.
"The Utility of Musical Instruments in the Racial and Colonial Agendas of Late Nineteenth-Century France," Journal of the Royal Musical Association Vol. 129, No. 1 (Spring 2004), 24-76.

AWARD: American Musicological Society, Colin Slim award for the best article in musicology by a senior scholar in any language and in any country, 2005

"Countess Greffulhe as Entrepreneur: Negotiating Class, Gender, and Nation" in The Musician as Entrepreneur, 1700-1914 Managers, Charlatans, and Idealists, ed. William Weber (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 221-255.
"Material Culture and Postmodern Positivism: Rethinking the "Popular" in late 19th c. French Music," in Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations, ed. Roberta Marvin, Michael Marissen, and Stephen Crist (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2004), 356-387.
"Writing Music History as a Woman and Postmodernist" in Musical Thoughts in the Twenty-First Century. Beyond Boundaries and Fields, ed. Takashi Funayama (Tokyo, 2003), 163-208.
"Crossdressing in Saint-Saëns’ Le Rouet d’Omphale: Ambiguities of Gender and Politics" in Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity, ed. Lloyd Whitesell and Sophie Fuller (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 191-215.
"Building a public for orchestral music: Les Concerts Colonne," in Le Concert et son public: Mutations de la vie musicale en Europe de 1780 à 1914 (Paris: Edition de la Maison des Sciences de l’homme, 2002), 209-240.
"Race, Orientalism, and Distinction in the Wake of the Yellow Peril," Western Music and its Others, ed. Georgina Born and Dave Hesmondhalgh (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000): 86-118.
Reprint of "India and its music in the French imagination before 1913," in Music, intercultural aspects: a collection of essays. Ed. S.A.K. Turkka (Mumbai: Indian Musicological Society, 1999)
"Timbre, Voice-leading and the Musical Arabesque in Debussy’s Piano Music," Debussy in Performance, ed. James Briscoe (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999): 225-255.
"The Ironies of Gender, or Virility and Politics in the Music of Augusta Holmès," Women and Music 2 (Fall 1998): 1-25.
"Directions in Musicology," Acta Musicologica [Journal of the International Musicological Society, Basel, Switzerland] (May 1997): 15-20.
"India and its Music in the French Imagination before 1913," Journal of the Indian Musicological Society [Baroda, India] vol. 27 (January-December 1996): 27-51.
"Reinterpreting Indian Music: Maurice Delage and Albert Roussel," Music-Cultures in Contact, Convergences and Collisions, ed. Margaret Kartomi and Stephen Blum, Australian Studies in History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Music (Sydney: Currency Press, 1994): 122-157.
Reprint: "Reinterpreting Indian Music: Maurice Delage and Albert Roussel," Music-Cultures in Contact, ed. Margaret Kartomi and Stephen Blum (Basel: Gordon and Breach, 1994): 122-157.
"Inventing a tradition: John Cage’s Composition in Retrospect," in John Cage: Composed in America, ed. Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1994): 125-143.
"Concert Programs and their Narratives as Emblems of Ideology," International Journal of Musicology 2 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1993): 249-308.
"John Cage: Releasing Spirit in Life and Music" [in Japanese]. Invited article for Music Today, vol. 18 special issue on John Cage (Tokyo, April 1993): 39-43.
"Postmodernism, Narrativity, and the Art of Memory," Contemporary Music Review, vol. 7, part 2 (London: Gordon and Breach, 1993): 3-32.
"New Music as Confrontation: the Musical Sources of Cocteau’s Identity," Musical Quarterly (Fall 1991): 255-278.
"Intention and Indeterminacy in John Cage’s I-VI," Parnassus 16, no. 2 (June 1991): 359-375.
"The chanson populaire as malleable symbol in turn-of-the-century France" in Tradition and its future in music, ed. Y. Tokumaru et al. (Tokyo, Osaka, Japan: Mita Press, 1991), 203-210.
"France: Conflicting Notions of Progress," in Man and Music: The Late Romantic Era, vol. 5 ed. Jim Samson (London: Macmillan, 1991), 389-416.
"Pelléas and Power: The Reception of Debussy’s Opera," in Music at the Turn of Century, ed. Joseph Kerman (Berkeley: 1990): 129-150
"La Schola Cantorum et les Apaches: L’enjeu du pouvoir artistique ou Séverac médiateur et critique," in La Musique: du théorique au politique ed. Hugues Dufourt and Joel-Marie Fauquet (Paris: Klincksieck, 1990), 313-343.
"Narrative and Narrativity in Music," in Time and Mind: Interdisciplinary Issues. The Study of Time VI, ed. J.T. Fraser (Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1989), 232-257.
"Musique et spectacle dans Petrouchka et Le Sacre du printemps," Inharmoniques, special number, D’un art à l’autre, les zones de défi 5 (June 1989): 42-63.
"Musique et Institution aux Etats-Unis," Inharmoniques, special number on "Musiques, identités," (May 1987): 104-134.
"Opéra et Pouvoir. Forces à l’oeuvre derrière le scandale du Pelléas de Debussy," translated by Odette Filloux and Jann Pasler, La Musique et le Pouvoir, edited by Hugues Dufourt and Joel-Marie Fauquet (Paris: Aux Amateurs de Livres, 1987): 147-177
"Pelléas and Power: Forces behind the Reception of Debussy’s Opera," 19th Century Music, X/3 (Spring 1987): 243-264.
"Music and Spectacle in Petrushka and The Rite of Spring" in Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and Modernist, ed. Jann Pasler (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 53-81.
"Issues in Stravinsky Research," Confronting Stravinsky: Man , Musician, and Modernist, ed. Jann Pasler (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), ix-xix.
"Stravinsky and the Apaches," Musical Times (June, 1982): 403-407.
"Debussy, Jeux: Playing with Time and Form," 19th Century Music (June, 1982): 60-72.
"The Choreography for The Rite of Spring: Stravinsky’s Visualization of Music," Dance Magazine (April, 1981): 66-69.