Orientalism and representations of music in the nineteenth-century British popular arts / Claire Mabilat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mabilat, Claire, 1980-

Series:

Music in nineteenth-century Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925.

Orientalism in music--Great Britain--History.

Orientalism in music.

Orientalism--Great Britain--History.

Orientalism.

Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925--Criticism and interpretation.

Haggard, H. Rider.

Dramatic music--Great Britain--19th century--History and criticism.

Dramatic music.

Criticism and interpretation.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction : Orientalism and its relation to music and musical representation

The musical stage

An introduction to British opera and musical stage works in the long nineteenth century

Sexualizing the other

An angel/demon dualism

Works of fiction : Rider Haggard and his milieu

Literature and Orientalism : contextualizing Rider Haggard

The "lady of the night" hath a sweet voice, and she will not sing in vain : Haggard's women : sexuality, music and the other

Haggard's constructions of African masculinity : otherness, violence and music

[T]hat unknown man's singing has stirred you deeply : E.M. Hull's The sheik : an exploration of Orientalized gender

Visual culture

Hearing art : an introduction

Visually realizing the fictions of H. Rider Haggard

'High art' and the musical 'Orient'

Staging the photographic 'Orient.'

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-243) and index.

ISBN:

9780754659624

0754659623

OCLC:

166290630