The Exotic In Western Music [Paperback]

Exoticism has flourished in western music since the seventeenth century. A blend of familiar and unfamiliar gestures, this vibrant musical language takes the listener beyond the ordinary by evoking foreign cultures and forbidden desires.

In this pioneering collection, distinguished musicologists explore the ways in which western composers have used exotic themes for dramatic and striking effect. Interweaving historical, musical, and cultural perspectives, the contributors examine the compositional use of exotic styles and traditions in the works of artists as diverse as Mozart and George Harrison.

The volume sheds new light on a significant yet largely neglected art form, and it makes a valuable contribution to music history and cultural studies.A look at the ways western composers from Mozart to George Harrison have used exotic elements in their musicEarly Exoticism Revisited / Miriam K. Whaples

Forreine Conceites and Wandring Devises : The Exotic, the Erotic, and the Feminine / Linda Phyllis Austern

The Alla Turca Style in the Late Eighteenth Century: Race and Gender in the Symphony and the Seraglio / Mary Hunter

The Hungarian Gypsies and the Poetics of Exclusion / Jonathan Bellman

Cutthroats and Casbah Dancers, Muezzins and Timeless Sands: Musical Images of the Middle East / Ralph P. Locke

How Spain Got a Soul / James Parakilas

Entoiling the Falconet : Russian Musical Orientalism in Context / Richard Taruskin

I'm an Indian Too : Creating Native American Identities in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Music / Michael V. Pisani

The East in the West : Evocations of the Gamelan in Western Music / Mervyn Cooke

Jazz and Musical Exoticism / Gunther Schuller

Indian Resonances in the British Invasion, 1965-1968 / Jonathan Bellman