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Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music
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Paperback. This collection of articles offers an overview of developments in cultural theory as applied to western music. The text examines a range of primarily 20th-century music and provides insights into how cultural identities and differences are constructed in music. Editor(s): Born, Georgina; Hesmondhalgh, David. Num Pages: 409 pages, 4 b/w photographs, 16 music examples. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVGC6; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604. Difference, Representation and Appropriation in Music. 409 pages, 4 b&w photographs, 16 music examples. Editor(s): Born, Georgina; Hesmondhalgh, David. This collection of articles offers an overview of developments in cultural theory as applied to western music. The text examines a range of primarily 20th-century music and provides insights into how cultural identities and differences are constructed in music. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVGC6; JHMC. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 25. Weight: 604.
This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to Western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily twentieth-century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowings or appropriations, and how music has been used to construct, evoke, or represent difference of a musical or a sociocultural kind. The essays scrutinize a diverse body of music and discuss a range of significant examples, among them musical modernism's idealizing or ambivalent relations with popular, ethnic, and non-Western music; exoticism and orientalism in the experimental music tradition; the representation of others ... Read more
This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to Western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily twentieth-century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowings or appropriations, and how music has been used to construct, evoke, or represent difference of a musical or a sociocultural kind. The essays scrutinize a diverse body of music and discuss a range of significant examples, among them musical modernism's idealizing or ambivalent relations with popular, ethnic, and non-Western music; exoticism and orientalism in the experimental music tradition; the representation of others ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
409
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
551g
Number of Pages
409
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520220843
SKU
V9780520220843
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About Born
Georgina Born lectures on the sociology of culture at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge. She is the author of Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (California, 1995). David Hesmondhalgh is Research Fellow in Sociology at the Open University.
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