Orientalism and representations of music in the nineteenth-century British popular arts
By: Claire Mabilat.
Series: Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780754659624
Subjects: Haggard, H. Rider -- 1856-1925 -- Criticism and interpretation; Orientalism in music -- Great Britain -- History; Orientalism -- Great Britain -- History; Dramatic music -- 19th century -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
Description: "This book explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of non-European musicians during this time, by utilizing recent theories of orientalism, and the subsidiary (particularly aesthetic and literary) theories both on which these theories were based and on which they have been influential. The author uses this theoretical framework of orientalism as a form of othering in order to analyse primary source materials, and in conjunction with musicological, literary and art theories, thus explores ways in which ideas of the Other were transformed over time and between different genres and artists."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243).
Table of contents: title: The musical stage. An introduction to British opera and musical stage works in the long nineteenth century ; Sexualizing the other ; An angel/demon dualism; title: Works of fiction: Rider Haggard and his milieu. Literature and orientalism: contextualizing Rider Haggard ; The Lady of the Night hath a sweet voice, and she will not sing In vain: Haggard's women, sexuality, music and the other ; Haggard's constructions of African masculinity: otherness, violence and music ; [T]hat unknown man's singing has stirred you deeply : E.M. Hull's the Sheik, an exploration of orientalized gender; title: Visual culture. Hearing art: an introduction ; Visually realizing the fictions of H. Rider Haggard ; high art and the musical orient ; Staging the photographic Orient.