Description: Village Bells : Sound and Meaning in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside, Hardcover by Corbin, Alain, ISBN 0231104502, ISBN-13 9780231104500, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Explores the uses, symbology, and political and religious control of village bells in France as a window into the transformation of the secular and the religious in the countryside, and the reactions of the populace to those transformations. Using church archives and local documents, the author looks at the role of bells from the First Republic to the turn of the century and discusses how they were used to mark secular and religious time, as calls to prayer, the celebration of feasts, and as markings of rites of passage. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Book Title: Village Bells : Sound and Meaning in the Nineteenth-Century Frenc
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Name: Village Bells : the Culture of the Senses in the Nineteenth-Century French Countryside
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Europe / France, Modern / 19th Century, Customs & Traditions, Musical Instruments / General, Sociology / Rural
Publication Year: 1998
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 28.2 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Alain Corbin
Subject Area: Music, History, Social Science
Item Width: 0.6 in
Series: European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Ser.
Format: Hardcover
