Musical Exoticism

Author : Ralph P. Locke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521349559

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Musical Exoticism by Ralph P. Locke Pdf

A Japanese geisha, a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian-'Gypsy' fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don José - portrayals of people and places that are considered somehow 'exotic' have been ubiquitous from 1700 to today, whether in opera, Broadway musicals, instrumental music, film scores, or in jazz and popular song. Often these portrayals are highly stereotypical but also powerful, indelible and touching - or troubling. Musical Exoticism surveys the vast and varied repertoire of Western musical works that evoke exotic locales. It relates trends in musical exoticism to other trends in music, such as programme music and avant-garde experimentation, as well as to broader historical developments such as nationalism and empire. Ralph P. Locke outlines major trends in exotic depiction from the Baroque era onward, and illustrates these trends through close study of numerous exotic works, including operas by Handel and Rameau, Mozart's 'Rondo alla turca', 'Madame Butterfly' and 'West Side Story'.

Author : Timothy D. Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0822339684

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Beyond Exoticism by Timothy D. Taylor Pdf

DIVStudy of how systems of power and domination have shaped representations of otherness in music./div

Author : Nasser Al-Taee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351551403

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Representations of the Orient in Western Music by Nasser Al-Taee Pdf

This book focuses on the cultural, political and religious representations of the Orient in Western music. Dr Nasser Al-Taee traces several threads in a vast repertoire of musical representations, concentrating primarily on the images of violence and sensuality. Al-Taee argues that these prevailing traits are not only the residual manifestation of the Ottoman threat to Western Europe, but also the continuation of a long and complex history of fear and fascination towards the Orient and its Islamic religion. In addition to analyses of musical works, Al-Taee draws on travel accounts, paintings, biographies, and political events to engage with important issues such as gender, race, and religious differences that may have contributed to the variously complex images of the Orient in Western music. The study extends the range of Orientalism to cover eighteenth-century Austria, nineteenth-century Russia, and twentieth-century America. The book challenges those scholars who do not see Orientalism as problematic and tend to ignore the role of musical representations in shaping the image of the Other within a wider interdisciplinary study of knowledge and power.

Author : Deborah Mawer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521648564

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The Cambridge Companion to Ravel by Deborah Mawer Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the life, music and compositional aesthetic of Maurice Ravel.

Author : W. Anthony Sheppard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190072728

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Extreme Exoticism by W. Anthony Sheppard Pdf

To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies--of both desire and repulsion--through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and European painting, architecture, design, theater, and literature has been celebrated in numerous books and exhibitions, the role of music has been virtually ignored until now. W. Anthony Sheppard's Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life. Presenting numerous American encounters with and representations of Japanese music and Japan, this book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender. From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer's Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism.

Author : Jonathan Bellman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 1555533191

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The Exotic In Western Music by Jonathan Bellman Pdf

Exoticism has flourished in western music since the seventeenth century. A blend of familiar and unfamiliar gestures, this vibrant musical language takes the listener beyond the ordinary by evoking foreign cultures and forbidden desires. In this pioneering collection, distinguished musicologists explore the ways in which western composers have used exotic themes for dramatic and striking effect. Interweaving historical, musical, and cultural perspectives, the contributors examine the compositional use of exotic styles and traditions in the works of artists as diverse as Mozart and George Harrison. 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.

Author : Eero Tarasti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110808759

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Myth and Music by Eero Tarasti Pdf

Author : Ralph P. Locke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107012370

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Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart by Ralph P. Locke Pdf

Ralph P. Locke provides fresh insights into Western culture's increasing awareness of ethnic Otherness during the years 1500-1800.

Author : Philip Hayward
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780861969333

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Widening the Horizon by Philip Hayward Pdf

A deep dive into the history and retro appeal of musical exotica, including the Orientalism, Hawaiianesque, and Afro-tropicalism sub-sets. Widening the Horizon is the first in-depth study of exoticism in Post-War popular music. The opening chapters analyze the work of Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Korla Pandit, Yma Sumac—the musicians who developed (and exemplified) the style known as Exotica in the 1950s and 1960s. Other chapters address more recent developments in musical exoticism which have revived and reinflected the form, such as Haruomi Hosono’s Soy Sauce Music trilogy; the works of Van Dyke Parks, on albums such as Tokyo Rose; and the career of New Age populist/exoticist Yanni. Contributors to this anthology include writers and academics from Australia, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Author : John Michael Cooper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538157527

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Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music by John Michael Cooper Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on traditions, famous pieces, persons, places, technical terms, and institutions of Romantic music.

Author : Hon-Lun Yang,Michael Saffle
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472130313

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China and the West by Hon-Lun Yang,Michael Saffle Pdf

A groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume exploring the phenomenon of the "Westernization" of contemporary Chinese music

Author : William Echard
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253026590

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Psychedelic Popular Music by William Echard Pdf

Recognized for its distinctive musical features and its connection to periods of social innovation and ferment, the genre of psychedelia has exerted long-term influence in many areas of cultural production, including music, visual art, graphic design, film, and literature. William Echard explores the historical development of psychedelic music and its various stylistic incarnations as a genre unique for its fusion of rock, soul, funk, folk, and electronic music. Through the theory of musical topics—highly conventional musical figures that signify broad cultural concepts—and musical meaning, Echard traces the stylistic evolution of psychedelia from its inception in the early 1960s, with the Beatles' Rubber Soul and Revolver and the Kinks and Pink Floyd, to the German experimental bands and psychedelic funk of the 1970s, with a special emphasis on Parliament/Funkadelic. He concludes with a look at the 1980s and early 1990s, touching on the free festival scene, rave culture, and neo–jam bands. Set against the cultural backdrop of these decades, Echard's study of psychedelia lays the groundwork and offers lessons for analyzing the topic of popular music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351557580

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"Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s?940s " by Bennett Zon Pdf

Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth century. The book is in four themed sections. 'Portrayal of the East' traces the routes from encounter to representation and restores the Orient to its rightful place in histories of Orientalism. 'Interpreting Concert Music' looks at one of the principal forms in which Orientalism could be brought to an eager and largely receptive - yet sometimes resistant - mass market. 'Words and Music' investigates the confluence of musical and Orientalist themes in different genres of writing, including criticism, fiction and travel writing. Finally, 'The Orientalist Stage' discusses crucial sites of Orientalist representation - music theatre and opera - as well as tracing similar phenomena in twentieth-century Hindi cinema. These final chapters examine the rendering of the East as 'unachievable and unrecognizable' for the consuming gaze of the western spectator.

Author : Helen M. Greenwald
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195335538

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The Oxford Handbook of Opera by Helen M. Greenwald Pdf

Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators.

Author : John Whiteoak
Publisher : Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780734037930

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“Take Me to Spain”: Australian Imaginings of Spain through Music and Dance by John Whiteoak Pdf

Australians have been transported to an imaginary Spain from at least the 1830s, when cachuchas were first danced on the Sydney stage. In Take Me to Spain John Whiteoak explores the rich tapestry of Australians’ fascination with all thing Spanish, from the voluptuous sensuality of Lola Montez to operas featuring señoritas, toreadors and Gypsies, and from evocative silent and later Spain-themed Hollywood movies to the dazzlingly creative artistry of the flamenco dancers and guitarists who toured Australia in the 1960s and ’70s. Examining the diverse ways that Spanish music and dance have been mediated or hybridised to cater for Australian popular taste, this landmark study reveals how Hispanic traditions have become integral to the cultural history of the nation.