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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloechl, Olivia Ashley.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

New perspectives in music history and criticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--16th century--Music--History and criticism.

Indians of North America.

Music.

Indians of North America--17th century--Music--History and criticism.

Indians of North America--18th century--Music--History and criticism.

Indians in music--16th century--History and criticism.

Indians in music.

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.

Music--Social aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Music.

Physical Description:

xxi, 279 pages : illustrations music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Olivia A. Bloechl 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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780521866057

0521866057

OCLC:

181141173