Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth century. Four different themes are explored, including: the portrayal of the East, the interpretation of concert music, the relationship between music and different genres of writing, and Oriental representation in music theatre, opera and twentieth-century Hindi cinema.
Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth century. Four different themes are explored, including: the portrayal of the East, the interpretation of concert music, the relationship between music and different genres of writing, and Oriental representation in music theatre, opera and twentieth-century Hindi cinema.
Martin Clayton is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Open University, UK. He has written on topics including rhythm and metre, the history of comparative musicology, and musical encounters between India and the West. His publications include Time in Indian Music (2000), The Cultural Study of Music (co-editor, 2003) and Music, Time and Place (2007). Bennett Zon is Reader in Music, Director of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Music and Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University. He has published The English Plainchant Revival (1999), Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology (2000) and Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2007). Zon is General Editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review and the Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain book series.
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Contents: Introduction Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon. Part I Portrayal of the East: Encountering the other redefining the self: Hindostannie airs Haydn's folksong settings and the 'common practice' style Nicholas Cook; Mamia Ammani and other Bayadères: Europe's portrayal of India's temple dancers Joep Bor; Musical renaissance and its margins in England and India 1874-1914 Martin Clayton; Mizrakh Jewish music and the journey to the East Philip V. Bohlman and Ruth Davis. Part II Interpreting Concert Music: Granville Bantock and the Orient in the Midlands Fiona Richards; 'An inoffensive thing': Elgar The Crown of India and Empire Corissa Gould; Patriotic vigour or voice of the Orient? Re-reading Elgar's Caractacus Laura Upperton; Negotiating orientalism: the Kaccheri and the critic in colonial South India Lakshmi Subramanian. Part III Words and Music: 'Violent passions' and 'inhuman excess': simplicity and the representation of non-Western music in 19th-century British travel literature Bennett Zon; Creative women and 'exoticism' at the last fin-de-siècle Sophie Fuller; Tom-toms dream-fugues and poppy juice: East meets West in 19th-century fiction Phyllis Weliver. Part IV The Orientalist Stage: Chu Chin Chow and orientalist musical theatre in Britain during the First World War William A. Everett; A parallel reading of the 'Oriental' and South American opera libretti set by Sir Henry Bishop Claire Mabilat; Musicking the other: orientalism in the Hindi cinema Greg Booth. Index.
Contents: Introduction Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon. Part I Portrayal of the East: Encountering the other redefining the self: Hindostannie airs Haydn's folksong settings and the 'common practice' style Nicholas Cook; Mamia Ammani and other Bayadères: Europe's portrayal of India's temple dancers Joep Bor; Musical renaissance and its margins in England and India 1874-1914 Martin Clayton; Mizrakh Jewish music and the journey to the East Philip V. Bohlman and Ruth Davis. Part II Interpreting Concert Music: Granville Bantock and the Orient in the Midlands Fiona Richards; 'An inoffensive thing': Elgar The Crown of India and Empire Corissa Gould; Patriotic vigour or voice of the Orient? Re-reading Elgar's Caractacus Laura Upperton; Negotiating orientalism: the Kaccheri and the critic in colonial South India Lakshmi Subramanian. Part III Words and Music: 'Violent passions' and 'inhuman excess': simplicity and the representation of non-Western music in 19th-century British travel literature Bennett Zon; Creative women and 'exoticism' at the last fin-de-siècle Sophie Fuller; Tom-toms dream-fugues and poppy juice: East meets West in 19th-century fiction Phyllis Weliver. Part IV The Orientalist Stage: Chu Chin Chow and orientalist musical theatre in Britain during the First World War William A. Everett; A parallel reading of the 'Oriental' and South American opera libretti set by Sir Henry Bishop Claire Mabilat; Musicking the other: orientalism in the Hindi cinema Greg Booth. Index.
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