Beyond exoticism : western music and the world
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Beyond exoticism : western music and the world
(Refiguring American music)
Duke University Press, 2007
- : cloth
- : pbk.
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  Kyoto
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  Hiroshima
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  United Kingdom
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [261]-289
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures' understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term "exoticism" glosses over such differences in many studies of western music. Beyond Exoticism encompasses a range of musical genres and musicians, including Mozart, Beethoven, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Maurice Ravel, Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Bally Sagoo, and Bill Laswell as well as opera, symphony, country music, and "world music." Yet, more than anything else, it is an argument for expanding the purview of musicology to take into account not only composers' lives and the formal properties of the music they produce but also the larger historical and cultural forces shaping both music and our understanding of it. Beginning with a focus on musical manifestations of colonialism and imperialism, Taylor discusses how the "discovery" of the New World and the development of an understanding of self as distinct from the other, of "here" as different from "there," was implicated in the development of tonality, a musical system which effectively creates centers and margins. He describes how musical practices signifying nonwestern peoples entered the western European musical vocabulary and how Darwinian thought shaped the cultural conditions of early-twentieth-century music. In the era of globalization, new communication technologies and the explosion of marketing and consumption have accelerated the production and circulation of tropes of otherness. Considering western music produced under rubrics including multiculturalism, collaboration, hybridity, and world music, Taylor scrutinizes contemporary representations of difference. He argues that musical interpretations of the nonwestern other developed hundreds of years ago have not necessarily been discarded; rather they have been recycled and retooled.
Table of Contents
List of Music Examples ix
List of Figures and Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Beyond Exoticism 1
Part I: Colonialism and Imperialism 15
1. Colonialism, Modernity, and Music: Preliminary Notes on the Rise of Tonality and Opera 17
2. Peopling the Stage: Opera, Otherness, and New Musical Representations in the Enlightenment 43
3. The Rise of Imperialism and New Forms of Representation 73
Part II: Globalization 111
Introduction to Part II / Globalization as a Cultural System 113
4. Consumption, Globalization, and Music in the 1980s and After 123
5. Some Versions of Difference: Discourses of Hybridity in Transnational Musics 140
6. You Can Take "Country" out of the Country, but It Will Never Be "World" 161
7. World Music in Television Ads 184
Conclusions: Selves/Others, History, and Culture 209
Notes 213
Bibliography 261
Indez 291
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