Music and Empire in Britain and India [electronic resource] : Identity, Internationalism, and Cross-Cultural Communication /
van der Linden, Bob.author.
Music has been neglected by imperial historians, but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational, moral, and aesthetic motives underlying the institutionalization of "classical" music converged and diverged in Britain and India from 1880-1940.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Music has been neglected by imperial historians, but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational, moral, and aesthetic motives underlying the institutionalization of "classical" music converged and diverged in Britain and India from 1880-1940.
Cyril Scott : 'The father of modern British music' and the occult -- Percy Grainger : Kipling, racialism and all the world's folk music -- John Foulds and Maud MacCarthy : internationalism, theosophy and Indian music -- Rabindranath Tagore and Arnold Bake : modernist aesthetics and cross-cultural communication in Bengali folk music -- Sikh sacred music : identity, aesthetics and historical change.
Great Britain—History.
Asia—History.
Civilization—History.
Imperialism.
History, Modern.
Social history.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Asian History.
Cultural History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Modern History.
Social History.