Musical Exoticism
Images and Reflections
- Author: Locke, Ralph P.
Ralph Locke's new book provides not just academic specialists, but students and possibly general readers with a mature and fair-minded summary of musical exoticism ... This might serve well as... — More…
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Contents
- Part I :
- 1. Music, the world, and the critic;
- 2. Questions of value;
- 3. Exoticism with and without exotic style;
- 4. Who is 'Us'?: the national and/as the exotic, and the treatment of stereotypes;
- Part II :
- 5. Baroque portrayals of despots: ancient Babylon, Incan Peru;
- 6. A world of exotic styles, 1750-1880;
- 7. Exotic operas and two Spanish 'Gypsies';
- 8. Imperialism and 'the exotic Orient';
- 9. Exoticism in a modernist age (ca. 1890-1960);
- 10. Exoticism in a global age (ca. 1960 to today);
- 11. Epilogue: exotic works of the past, today.
