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Jules Verne & Music (part 1)audiences, musical inventions, « noise » & hullabaloo, and acoustic adventures(Jérôme Joy) |
 Conference-Call in "La journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889" (In the Year 2889) |
(This study is only available in French language)
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The goal of this study is to identify into the writings of Jules Verne (1828-1905) and his cycle "the Voyages Extraordinaires" ("Extraordinary Voyages", "Journeys in known and unknown worlds"), descriptions and assumptions that are related to the music and more precisely to changes in the music and listening caused by technical and communication technologies that were booming in the late nineteenth century. Although he was not a precursor nor an "inventor", Jules Verne was able to imagine, for example, new ways to play and listen to music into his futuristic stories (corresponding to his visions of the twentieth century and sometimes of the following centuries (such as in "The day of an American journalist in 2889" (1891)) starting from extensions, combinations and judicious uses of technical and industrial inventions of his time.