Orientalism and representations of music in the nineteenth-century British popular arts / Claire Mabilat.
Published / Created:
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Ashgate, c2008.Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.
Physical Description:
xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index.
Contents:
The musical stage. An introduction to British opera and musical stage works in the long nineteenth century ; Sexualizing 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.
Subject Terms:
Orientalism in music -- Great Britain -- History. | Orientalism -- Great Britain -- History. | Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856–1925 -- Criticism and interpretation. | Dramatic music -- 19th century -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.