| Description |
xv, 347 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Music in nineteenth-century Britain
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Music in nineteenth-century Britain.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. 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 -- 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 -- III. 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 -- 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 / Gregory D. Booth. |
| Subject |
Orientalism in music -- Great Britain -- History.
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Orientalism in music. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Added Author |
Clayton, Martin.
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Zon, Bennett.
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| ISBN |
9780754656043 alkaline paper |
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0754656047 alkaline paper |
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