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Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts (Paperback)
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Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts (Paperback)
Series: Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Representations of music were employed to create a wider 'Orient'
on the pages, stages and walls of nineteenth-century Britain. This
book explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and
sexuality that arise in artistic British representations of
non-European musicians during this time, by utilizing recent
theories of orientalism, and the subsidiary (particularly aesthetic
and literary) theories both on which these theories were based and
on which they have been influential. The author uses this
theoretical framework of orientalism as a form of othering in order
to analyse primary source materials, and in conjunction with
musicological, literary and art theories, thus explores ways in
which ideas of the Other were transformed over time and between
different genres and artists. Part I, The Musical Stage, discusses
elements of the libretti of popular musical stage works in this
period, and the occasionally contradictory ways in which 'racial'
Others was represented through text and music; a particular focus
is the depiction of 'Oriental' women and ideas of sexuality.
Through examination of this collection of libretti, the ways in
which the writers of these works filter and romanticize the
changing intellectual ideas of this era are explored. Part II,
Works of Fiction, is a close study of the works of Sir Henry Rider
Haggard, using other examples of popular fiction by his
contemporary writers as contextualizing material, with the primary
concern being to investigate how music is utilized in popular
fiction to represent Other non-Europeans and in the creation of
orientalized gender constructions. Part III, Visual Culture, is an
analysis of images of music and the 'Orient' in examples of British
'high art', illustration and photography, investigating how the
musical Other was visualized.
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