TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jerold,Beverly
TI  - Disinformation in mass media: Gluck, Piccinni, and the Journal de Paris 
T2  - Royal Musical Association monographs
SN  - 9780367350178 (hbk.)
AV  - ML1727.35 .J47 2021
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Journal de Paris
KW  - Gluck-Piccinni controversy
KW  - Musical criticism
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Opera
KW  - Italy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [vi]-x) and index; The Cast and Setting -- Arnaud's Correspondence to Italy -- The Journal de Paris on the Offensive -- Libel of La Harpe by Allusion -- The Armide Episode -- Piccinni's Opera and Further Events -- Disinterested Observers -- Profit and Power
N2  - "The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France's first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division. To attract a large readership and bar competition for C. W. Gluck's works at the Paris Opéra, it launched a prolonged campaign of anonymous lies, mockery and defamation against two prominent members of the Académie Française who wished the Opéra to be open to all deserving composers, but lacked a comparable daily forum with which to defend themselves. In this unique episode, music served as a smokescreen for nefarious activity. No musical knowledge is necessary to follow this purely political drama, in which the tactics employed bear a remarkable resemblance to current events"--
ER  -