| Series |
Music in nineteenth-century Britain
Music in nineteenth-century Britain. ^A412049
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| Contents |
Portrayal of the East. Encountering the other, redefining the self: Hindostannie airs, Haydn's folk song 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 F. Davis -- 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 -- Words and music. 'Violent passions' and 'Inhuman excess': simplicity and the representation of non-Western music in nineteenth-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 nineteenth-century fiction / Phyllis Weliver -- 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 / Gregory D. Booth. |
| Abstract |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006032542 |
| ISBN | 9780754656043 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0754656047 (alk. paper) |
