'Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon’s anthology is a signal contribution to transcultural music studies in general and to the British postcolonial studies in particular. These studies range from Elgar to light musical theatre to film music, and indeed into travel literature and fiction also. The primary concern here is musical matters in the British Empire in the nineteenth and early ... Read moretwentieth centuries, with emphasis on India; the musical and critical disciplines will certainly benefit from this research because much of it is to this point unknown. This book will spark both debate and, I predict, inspire similar projects focusing on other countries'. Jonathan Bellman, University of Northern Colorado, USA. ’The essays dealing with British composers Edward Elgar and Granville Bantock and with orientalist music theatre and opera are ... valuable as empirical studies on little-researched topics or for bringing their subjects within the interpretive ambit of the collection's concerns.’ Victorian Studies Show Less