Indian music and the West
By: Gerry Farrell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780198167174; 9780198163916
Subjects: Ethnomusicology; Indic influences; History and criticism; Music; Western Civilization; Receptie; Muziek
Description: Indian Music and the West examines perceptions and representations of Indian music in the West over a period of two hundred years, ranging from orientalist studies of Indian history and culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the adoption of elements from Indian music in Western popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Gerry Farrell charts the place of Indian music within the context of colonialism, the use of Indian imagery in Western popular songs and on the stage, and the early days of the gramophone in India. Farrell also demonstrates how Indian music has been discovered and re-discovered in the West, and how these discoveries have reflected changing cultural, social, and political relations between India and the West. This is the story of the interface between two sophisticated and complex musical systems.
Notes: "New as paperback edition 1999."

Discography: p. [221].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Europeans and Indian music in the late Eighteenth Century; title: Indian music, notation, and nationalism in the Nineteenth Century; title: India in Western popular song; title: The gramophone comes to India; title: Three journeys to the West; title: Indian elements in popular music and jazz; title: World music and South Asian music in the West; title: Conclusion.