Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music

ISBN 10: 0520220838 / ISBN 13: 9780520220836

Verlag: University of California Press, 2000

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No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000262677

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Titel: Western Music and Its Others: Difference, ...

Verlag: University of California Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 2000

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

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This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily 20th century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowing or appropriations, and how music has been used to construct, evoke, or represent difference of a musical or a socio-cultural kind. The essays scrutinise a diverse body of music and discuss a range of significant examples, among them musical modernism's idealising or ambivalent relations with popular, ethnic, and non-western music; exoticism and orientalism in the experimental music tradition; the representation of others in Hollywood film music; music's role in the formation and contestation of collective identities, with reference to Jewish and Turkish popular music; and issues of representation and difference in jazz, world music, hip, hop, and electronic dance music. Written by leading scholars from disciplines including historical musicology, sociology, ethno-musicology, anthropology, popular music studies and film studies, the essays provide unprecedented insights into how cultural identities and differences are const

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Georgina Born lectures on the sociology of culture at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge. She is the author of Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (California, 1995). David Hesmondhalgh is Research Fellow in Sociology at the Open University.