8 juin 2021
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Zhuqing (Lester) S. Hu, « 7. A Global Phonographic Revolution », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.8ly5ot
In 1758, Paris found itself in the middle of two literary quarrels. One erupted six years earlier, when a staging of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s La serva padrona at the Académie de Musique ignited debates over the merits of Italian versus French operas. Though this ‘Querelle des Bouffons’ reached its peak in 1754, it reverberated throughout the decade on account of a fierce Italianist, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In the aftermath, Rousseau penned his Essay on the Origin of Languages (dated to th...