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Book SynopsisThis collection of articles offers an overview of developments in cultural theory as applied to western music. The text examines a range of primarily 20th-century music and provides insights into how cultural identities and differences are constructed in music.
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: On Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music I. Postcolonial Analysis and Music Studies (David Hesmondhalgh and Georgina Born) II. Musical Modernism, Postmodernism, and Others (Georgina Born) III. Othering, Hybridity, and Fusion in Transnational Popular Musics (David Hesmondhalgh and Georgina Born) IV. Music and the Representation/Articulation of Sociocultural Identities (Georgina Born) V. Techniques of the Musical Imaginary (Georgina Born) CHAPTERS 1. Musical Belongings: Western Music and Its Low-Other (Richard Middleton) 2. Race, Orientalism, and Distinction in the Wake of the "Yellow Peril" (Jann Pasler) 3. Bartok, the Gypsies, and Hybridity in Music (Julie Brown) 4. Modernism, Deception, and Musical Others: Los Angeles circa 1940 (Peter Franklin) 5. Experimental Oriental: New Music and Other Others (John Corbett) 6. Composing the Cantorate: Westernizing Europe's Other Within (Philip V. Bohlman) 7. East, West, and Arabesk (Martin Stokes) 8. Scoring the Indian: Music in the Liberal Western (Claudia Gorbman) 9. The Poetics and Politics of Pygmy Pop (Steven Feld) 10. International Times: Fusions, Exoticism, and Antiracism in Electronic Dance Music (David Hesmondhalgh) 11. The Discourse of World Music (Simon Frith)
