Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s–1940s: Portrayal of the East

Contents

• Contents: Introduction, Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon. Part I Portrayal of the East: Encountering the other, redefining the self: Hindostannie airs, Haydn's folksong settings and the 'common practice' style, Nicholas Cook
• Mamia, Ammani and other Bayaderes: Europe's portrayal of India's temple dancers, Joep Bor
• Musical renaissance and its margins in England and India, 1874-1914, Martin Clayton
• Mizrakh, Jewish music and the journey to the East, Philip V. Bohlman and Ruth Davis. Part II Interpreting Concert Music: Granville Bantock and the Orient in the Midlands, Fiona Richards
• 'An inoffensive thing': Elgar, The Crown of India and Empire, Corissa Gould
• Patriotic vigour or voice of the Orient? Re-reading Elgar's Caractacus, Laura Upperton
• Negotiating orientalism: the Kaccheri and the critic in colonial South India, Lakshmi Subramanian. Part III Words and Music: 'Violent passions' and 'inhuman excess': simplicity and the representation of non-Western music in 19th-century British travel li
• Creative women and 'exoticism' at the last fin-de-siecle, Sophie Fuller
• Tom-toms, dream-fugues and poppy juice: East meets West in 19th-century fiction, Phyllis Weliver. Part IV The Orientalist Stage: Chu Chin Chow and orientalist musical theatre in Britain during the First World War, William A. Everett
• A parallel reading of the 'Oriental' and South American opera libretti set by Sir Henry Bishop, Claire Mabilat
• Musicking the other: orientalism in the Hindi cinema, Greg Booth. Index.