Abstract
The Journal de Nîmes from 1785 to 1789 provides echoes of the musical life of an expanding industrial and commercial town.While the attention paid to musical performances is partly explained by the fact that this journal was run by one of the shareholders of the theatre, it enables us above all to judge the place of musical amusement in the culture of the Nîmes élites. It is not only a sociable activity, as the social tensions of the period, which only filter through to the Journal in the form of charity concerts and balls, stimulate the traders to affirm their social distinction by showing their disinterestedness. Music, and particularly concerts, whose codes of perception are being elaborated here, are involved in the constitution of a new governing class based on economic, social and cultural distancing.
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