Concerts and Inadvertent Secularization: Religious Music in the Entertainment Market of Eighteenth-Century Paris.

Public concerts offer a new perspective on the controversial subject of secularization and the Enlightenment. From 1725–90, the Concert spirituel in Paris, one of the earliest and most famous concert series in Europe, presented a mixture of sacred and secular music when other entertainments were for...

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Published in:	Past & Present Vol. 250; no. 1; pp. 135 - 170
Main Author:	Pesic, Andrei
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Feb2021
Subjects:	Secularization Cultural industries > History History of Paris, France, 1715-1789 Enlightenment Concerts Religion & secularism Sacred music France
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