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Title

Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s : portrayal of the East / edited by Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon.

Publication

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Clayton, Martin.
• Zon, Bennett.

Description

xv, 347 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Music in nineteenth-century Britain

Subject

• Orientalism in music > Great Britain > History
• Music > Great Britain > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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, 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.

Call Number

JME 07-968

ISBN

• 9780754656043 (alk. paper)
• 0754656047 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006032542

OCLC

72798633

Title

Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s : portrayal of the East / edited by Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon.

Imprint

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Series

Music in nineteenth-century Britain

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Clayton, Martin.

Zon, Bennett.

Research Call Number

JME 07-968