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Resonances of the Raj - India in the English Musical Imagination,1897-1947 (Hardcover)
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Resonances of the Raj - India in the English Musical Imagination,1897-1947 (Hardcover)
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During the century of British rule of the Indian subcontinent known
as the British Raj, the rulers felt the significant influence of
their exotic subjects. Resonances of the Raj examines the
ramifications of the intertwined and overlapping histories of
Britain and India on English music in the last fifty years of the
colonial encounter, and traces the effects of the Raj on the
English musical imagination. Conventional narratives depict a
one-way influence of Britain on India, with the 'discovery' of
Indian classical music occurring only in the post-colonial era.
Drawing on new archival sources and approaches in cultural studies,
author Nalini Ghuman shows that on the contrary, England was both
deeply aware of and heavily influenced by India musically during
the Indian-British colonial encounter. Case studies of
representative figures, including composers Edward Elgar and Gustav
Holst, and Maud MacCarthy, an ethnomusicologist and performer of
the era, integrate music directly into the cultural history of the
British Raj. Ghuman thus reveals unexpected minglings of peoples,
musics and ideas that raise questions about 'Englishness', the
nature of Empire, and the fixedness of identity. Richly illustrated
with analytical music examples and archival photographs and
documents, many of which appear here in print for the first time,
Resonances of the Raj brings fresh hearings to both familiar and
little-known musics of the time, and reveals a rich and complex
history of cross-cultural musical imaginings which leads to a
reappraisal of the accepted historiographies of both British
musical culture and of Indo-Western fusion.
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