Bennett Zon

Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s (eBook, ePUB)

Portrayal of the East

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. The book is in four themed sections. 'Portrayal of the East' traces the routes from encounter to representation and restores the Orient to its rightful place in histories of Orientalism. 'Interpreting Concert Music' looks at one of the principal forms in which Orientalism could be brought to an eager and largely receptive - yet sometimes resistant - mass market. 'Words and Music' investigates the confluence of musical and Orientalist themes in different genres of writing, including criticism, fiction and travel writing. Finally, 'The Orientalist Stage' discusses crucial sites of Orientalist representation - music theatre and opera - as well as tracing similar phenomena in twentieth-century Hindi cinema. These final chapters examine the rendering of the East as 'unachievable and unrecognizable' for the consuming gaze of the western spectator.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351557580
• Artikelnr.: 49043095

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.