This book explores leisure-related voluntary associations in France during the nineteenth century as practical expressions of the Revolutionary concept of frate

Sport and physical culture in Occupied France examines the Vichy state’s attempts to promote physical education and sports in order to rejuvenate French men a

Rarely studied in their own right, writings about music are often viewed as merely supplemental to understanding music itself. Yet in the nineteenth century, sc

Explicitly or not, the historical musicology of post-Revolutionary France has focused on Paris as a proxy for the rest of the country. This distorting lens is t

Of the many brass bands that have flourished in Britain and Ireland over the last 200 years very few have documented records covering their history. This direct