1st Edition
Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts
By Claire Mabilat
Copyright 2008
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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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)... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction: orientalism and its relation to music and musical representation. Part I The Musical Stage: An introduction to British opera and musical stage works in the long 19th century; Sexualising the other; An angel/demon dualism. Part II 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. Part III Visual culture: Hearing art: an introduction; Visually realizing the fictions of H. Rider Haggard; 'High art' and the musical 'orient'; Staging the photographic 'orient'; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dr Claire Mabilat is an independent scholar living in France and formerly lectured part-time at Durham University, UK.
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