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In this book, author D. R. M. Irving traces the emergence of such large-scale categories as "European music" and "Western music," showing how they originate from self-fashioning in contexts of intercultural comparison outside the European continent rather than the resolution of national aesthetic differences within it. Taken as a whole, this study demonstrates how reductive labels for the musics of a continent or a hemisphere often imply homogeneity and essentialism, and how a renewed critique of primary sources can help dismantle historiographical constructs that arose within narratives of musical pasts involving Europe.…mehr

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In this book, author D. R. M. Irving traces the emergence of such large-scale categories as "European music" and "Western music," showing how they originate from self-fashioning in contexts of intercultural comparison outside the European continent rather than the resolution of national aesthetic differences within it. Taken as a whole, this study demonstrates how reductive labels for the musics of a continent or a hemisphere often imply homogeneity and essentialism, and how a renewed critique of primary sources can help dismantle historiographical constructs that arose within narratives of musical pasts involving Europe.
Autorenporträt
D. R. M. Irving is an ICREA Research Professor affiliated to the Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC, Barcelona. His research focuses on the role of music in early modern colonialism and intercultural contact. He is the author of Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila, co-editor with W. Dean Sutcliffe of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music, and co-general editor with Alexander Rehding of A Cultural History of Western Music. As a performer on the early violin, he has played with ensembles in Australia, Europe, Asia, and the Americas.