Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-century British Popular Arts

by Mabilat,Claire

• ISBN13: 9780754659624
• ISBN10: 0754659623
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-12-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This fascinating book explores issues of orientalism, otherness, gender and sexuality that arise in British representations of non-European musicians during the long nineteenth century. Mabilat uses a theoretical framework of orientalism as a form of othering to analyse primary source materials in the forms of opera libretti, popular fiction and the visual arts (such as photographs and book illustrations), alongside contextualizing non-fiction materials. In conjunction with musicological, literary and art theories, the book considers how ideas of the Other were transformed over time and between different genres and artists.

Author Biography

Claire Mabilat formerly lectured part-time at Durham University, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: orientalism and its relation to music and musical representation

The Musical Stage

An introduction to British opera and musical stage works in the long 19th century

Sexualising the other

An angel/demon dualism

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

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

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