Musical Style and Social Meaning: Selected Essays

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part 1 Music Criticism and Theory: Postmodernism and music: postscript
• Modernism, postmodernism and musical consensus
• Bruckner's symphonies - a reinterpretation
• Mimesis, gesture, and parody in musical word-setting. Part 2 Jazz and Popular Music: The Jazz Age in Britain
• Light music and easy listening
• The Britpop sound
• The challenges of assessing popular music performance in higher education. Part 3 Orientalism, National Identity, and Ideology: Orientalism and musical style
• Edward Said and the interplay of music, history, and ideology
• Imagining the nation, imagining Europe. Part 4 Politics, Class and Englishness: Music and social class in Victorian London
• English national identity and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
• The power of music
• Imperialism and anti-imperialism in 19th-century popular song
• Sullivan's demonic tea-making scene: homage to Weber or parody? Part 5 Ethnicity and Race: The impact of Black performance on the 19th-century stage
• A problem of race in directing Die ZauberflAte
• In search of genetically modified music: race and musical style in the 19th century
• Index.