Julie Brown (ed.)

Western Music and Race

Herausgeber: Brown, Julie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This contributory volume, the first book of its kind, provides a snapshot of the ways in which discourse about Western music and race overlapped and became intertwined during the period from Wagner's death to the rise of National Socialism and fascism elsewhere in Europe. At these two framing moments such overlapping was at its most explicit: Wagner's racially inflected 'regeneration theories' were at one end and institutionalised cultural racism at the other. The book seeks to provide insights into the key national contexts in which such discourses circulated in the interim period, as well as to reflect a range of archival, historical, critical, and philosophical approaches to the topic. National contexts covered include Germay, France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain and North America. The contributors to the volume are leading scholars in the field, and the book contains many illustrative music examples and images which bring the subject matter to life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 779g
• ISBN-13: 9780521838870
• ISBN-10: 0521838878
• Artikelnr.: 23072870

Autorenporträt

Julie Brown is Senior Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Music, history, trauma: Western music and race 1883-1933 Julie
Brown; Part I. Overviews and Critical Frameworks: 1. Erasure: displacing
and misplacing race in twentieth-century music historiography Philip V.
Bohlman; 2. Secrets, lies, and transcriptions: revisions on race, black
music and culture Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jnr.; 3. 'Gypsy Violins' and 'Hot
Rhythms': race, popular music and governmentality Brian Currid; 4. The
concept of race in German musical discourse Pamela M. Potter; Part II.
Racial Ideologies: 5. Strange love, or, How we learnt to stop worrying and
love Wagner's Parsifal John Deathridge; 6. Otto Weininger and musical
discourse in turn-of-the-century Vienna Julie Brown; 7. Ancestral voices:
anti-Semitism and Ernest Bloch's racial theories of art Klara Moricz; 8.
Percy Grainger and the American Nordicists Malcolm Gillies and David Pear;
9. Race and hybridity: Kaikhosru Sorabji's 'Oriental Orientalism' Nalini
Ghuman Gwynne; Part III. Local Contexts: 10. Race, identity, and
difference: musical acclimatisation and the Chansons populaires in Third
Republic France Jann Pasler; 11. The anti-Semitic strain in German writing
on music: 1900-33 Erik Levi; 12. Italian music and racial discourses during
the Fascist Period Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Sala; 13. Romanticism,
technology, and the masses: Honegger and the aesthetic allure of French
Fascism Jane F. Fulcher; 14. The concept of race in Spanish musical
literature (1915-36) Gemma Perez-Zalduondo; 15. Manuel de Falla, flamenco
and Spanish identity Michael Christoforidis; 16. 'The old sweet Anglo-Saxon
spell': racial discourses and the American reception of British music
1895-1945 Alain Frogley; 17. Re-thinking the Revue negre: the critical
reception of black musical shows in twenties' and thirties' Paris Andy Fry.