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

IF 1.8 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Past & Present Pub Date : 2021-02-08 DOI:10.1093/PASTJ/GTAA011
A. Pesic
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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 forbidden during religious holidays. Over the course of the century, the proportion of religious works in its repertoire declined significantly. Whereas previous interpretations tended to describe secularization as resulting either from battles between philosophes and the Church or from broader declines in belief, this article casts doubt on these explanations by showing the heterogeneous composition of the Concert’s audience. Instead, it depicts a process of ‘inadvertent secularization’ stemming from market pressure, in this case due to the multiplication of new concert series and other entertainments in Paris during the second half of the eighteenth century. This framework accounts for secularization at the institutional level without assuming that the society as a whole was marked by declining Christian belief. Bringing together the study of markets and religion reveals how multiple logics increased the autonomy of artistic fields formerly subject to religious constraints.
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音乐会和无意的世俗化:18世纪巴黎娱乐市场中的宗教音乐*
公共音乐会为世俗化和启蒙运动这一有争议的主题提供了一个新的视角。从1725年到1990年,巴黎圣歌音乐会是欧洲最早、最著名的系列音乐会之一,在宗教节日禁止其他娱乐活动的情况下,它呈现了神圣和世俗的混合音乐。在本世纪的过程中,宗教作品在其剧目中的比例显著下降。尽管之前的解释倾向于将世俗化描述为哲学家和教会之间的斗争或更广泛的信仰下降造成的,但本文通过展示音乐会观众的异质组成,对这些解释提出了质疑。相反,它描绘了一个源于市场压力的“无意世俗化”过程,在这种情况下,是由于18世纪下半叶巴黎新的系列音乐会和其他娱乐活动的增加。这一框架解释了制度层面的世俗化,而没有假设整个社会的特点是基督教信仰的衰落。将市场和宗教的研究结合起来,揭示了多元逻辑是如何增加以前受宗教约束的艺术领域的自主权的。
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