Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts
- Author: Mabilat, Claire
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Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Introduction: orientalism and its relation to music and musical representation. Part I The Musical Stage: An introduction to British opera and musical stage works in the long 19th century
- Sexualising the other
- An angel/demon dualism. Part II 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. Part III Visual culture: Hearing art: an introduction
- Visually realizing the fictions of H. Rider Haggard
- 'High art' and the musical 'orient'
- Staging the photographic 'orient'
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.