The exotic in western music / edited by Jonathan Bellman.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Bellman, Jonathan, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Music--History and criticism.
• Music.
• Exoticism in music.

Physical Description:

xiii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1998]

Summary:

In a pioneering collection, distinguished musicologists explore the ways in which western composers have used exotic elements for dramatic and striking effect. The volume sheds new light on a significant yet largely neglected art form, and it makes a valuable contribution to music history and cultural studies.

Contents:

• "Forreine Conceites and Wandring Devises": The Exotic, the Erotic, and the Feminine / Linda Phyllis Austern Austern, Linda Phyllis
• The Alla Turca Style in the Late Eighteenth Century: Race and Gender in the Symphony and the Seraglio / Mary Hunter Hunter, Mary
• The Hungarian Gypsies and the Poetics of Exclusion / Jonathan Bellman Bellman, Jonathan
• Cutthroats and Casbah Dancers, Muezzins and Timeless Sands: Musical Images of the Middle East / Ralph P. Locke Locke, Ralph P.
• How Spain Got a Soul / James Parakilas Parakilas, James
• "Entoiling the Falconet": Russian Musical Orientalism in Context / Richard Taruskin Taruskin, Richard
• "I'm an Indian Too": Creating Native American Identities in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Music / Michael V. Pisani Pisani, Michael V.
• "The East in the West": Evocations of the Gamelan in Western Music / Mervyn Cooke Cooke, Mervyn
• Jazz and Musical Exoticism / Gunther Schuller Schuller, Gunther
• Indian Resonances in the British Invasion, 1965-1968 / Jonathan Bellman Bellman, Jonathan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-354) and index.

ISBN:

• 1555533205
• 1555533191

OCLC:

36728006