Firstname
Kristy
Lastname
Barbacane
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Dissertation Title
On Colonial Textuality and Difference: Musical Encounters with French Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
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Faculty Advisers
Walter Frisch and Karen Henson
Dissertation Summary
My project places music within French colonial culture, identifying the interconnections between political policy and cultural production during France’s occupation of Algeria. More specifically, the dissertation presents three composers—Ernest Reyer (1823-1909), Francisco Salvador Daniel (1831-1871) and Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)—as case studies to understand the complexities and tensions that arose out of the colonial moment and to examine how each figure negotiated his own compositional style, musical career and artistic identity vis-a-vis colonial Algeria.
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