Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s
Subtitle: portrayal of the East
By: edited by Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon
Contributors: Clayton, Martin; Zon, Bennett
Series: Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780754656043
Subjects: Orientalism in music -- Great Britain -- History; Music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Portrayal of the East; title: Encountering the other, redefining the self : Hindostannie airs, Haydn's folk song settings and the 'common practice' style / Nicholas Cook; title: Mamia, Ammani and other Bayadères : Europe's portrayal of India's temple dancers / Joep Bor; title: Musical renaissance and its margins in England and India, 1874-1914 / Martin Clayton; title: Mizrakh, Jewish music and the journey to the East / Philip V. Bohlman, Ruth F. Davis; title: Interpreting concert music; title: Granville Bantock and the Orient in the Midlands / Fiona Richards; title: 'An inoffensive thing' : Elgar, The crown of India and empire / Corissa Gould; title: Patriotic vigour or voice of the Orient? : re-reading Elgar's Caractacus / Laura Upperton; title: Negotiating Orientalism : the Kaccheri and the critic in colonial South India / Lakshmi Subramanian; title: Words and music; title: 'Violent passions' and 'inhuman excess' : simplicity and the representation of non-Western music in nineteenth-century British travel literature / Bennett Zon; title: Creative women and 'exoticism' at the last fin-de-siècle / Sophie Fuller; title: Tom-toms, dream-fugues and poppy juice : East meets West in nineteenth-century fiction / Phyllis Weliver; title: The Orientalist stage; title: Chu Chin Chow and Orientalist musical theatre in Britain during the First World War / William A. Everett; title: A parallel reading of the 'Oriental' and South American opera libretti set by Sir Henry Bishop / Claire Mabilat; title: Musicking the other : Orientalism in the Hindi cinema / Gregory D. Booth