Native American song at the frontiers of early modern music - ECU Libraries Catalog

Native American song at the frontiers of early modern music / Olivia A. Bloechl.

Author/creator	Bloechl, Olivia Ashley
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description	xxi, 279 pages : illustrations music ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Indians of North America--Music --16th century --History and criticism. Indians of North America--Music --17th century --History and criticism. Indians of North America--Music --18th century --History and criticism. Indians in music--16th century --History and criticism. Indians in music--17th century --History and criticism. Indians in music--18th century --History and criticism. Music--United States --16th century --History and criticism. Music--United States --17th century --History and criticism. Music--United States --18th century --History and criticism. Music--Social aspects --United States.

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Series	New perspectives in music history and criticism New perspectives in music history and criticism. ^A359753
Contents	On colonial difference and musical frontiers: directions for a postcolonial musicology -- pt. 1. Transatlantic savagery. Protestant imperialism and the metaphysics of New World song -- The voice of possession -- The voice of prophecy -- pt. 2. Staging the Indian. Musicking Indians in the Stuart court masque -- Savage Lully -- Rameau's Les sauvages and the aporia of musical nature -- Conclusion: opera, elsewhere.
Abstract	The author reconceives the history of French and English music from the sixteenth through to the eighteenth century from the perspective of colonial history. She demonstrates how encounters with native American music in the early years of colonization changed the course of European music history. Colonial wealth provided for sumptuous and elite musical display, and American musical practices, materials, and ideas fed Europeans' taste for exoticism, as in the masques, ballets, and operas discussed here. The gradual association of native American song with derogatory stereotypes of musical "savagery" pressed Europeans to distinguish their own music as civilized and rational. Drawing on evidence from a wide array of musical, linguistic, and visual sources, this book demonstrates that early American colonization shaped European music cultures in fundamental ways, and it offers a fresh, politically and transculturally informed approach to the study of music in the early colonial Atlantic world.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.
ISBN	9780521866057
ISBN	0521866057

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