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Resonances of the Raj : India in the English musical imagination, 1897-1947 /

This text examines the ramifications of the intertwined and overlapping histories of Britain and India on English music in the last fifty years of the colonial encounter, and traces the effects of the British Raj on the English musical imagination. Through a series of case studies, author Nalini Ghu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ghuman, Nalini
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 8 |a This text examines the ramifications of the intertwined and overlapping histories of Britain and India on English music in the last fifty years of the colonial encounter, and traces the effects of the British Raj on the English musical imagination. Through a series of case studies, author Nalini Ghuman integrates music directly into the cultural history of the British Raj, revealing unexpected minglings of peoples, musics, and ideas that raise questions about 'Englishness', about the nature of Empire, and about the fixedness of identity. 
505 0 |a 1. A subtle and exquisite spirit: Maud MacCarthy and Indian music in Britain. True practice -- Real proof -- Fusty bookology -- An equal music. -- 2. Elephants and Mughals, contraltos and G-strings: How Elgar got his Englishness. Vandalism rectified (The Delhi Darbar) -- Masking the Darbar -- The composer's burden -- East is East and West is West -- The Jewel in The Crown of India -- East is West (or, Angular Saxon) -- Can the Mughals march? -- Elgar the Barbarian. -- 3. From India to the Planet Mars: Gustav Holst. Why not learn Sanskrit? -- As if improvising -- A little more context -- Between life and death -- A complicated rhythmical figure -- Archaic avant-garde -- But a passing phase -- From India to the Planet Mars -- To another world -- Figure of our time. -- 4. Songs that moved the world: Amy Woodforde-Finden's Indian love lyrics. Women hold their own -- A taste for the forbidden -- Orientalities -- Paradise on Earth -- Sincerity rather than poetry -- Myths and manifestations -- Sapphic stories -- A map of longings. -- 5. Persian composer-pianist baffles: Kaikhosru Sorabji. Marginal exotic -- Himalayan Hermitage -- Colour matters -- Modernist -- Scheherazade-Kaikhosru -- Raga, Jangal, and Chakra -- Melancholy moth. -- 6. Modes, mantras, and Gandharvas: John Foulds's Passage to India. No little Englander -- Oh! The poor conductor! -- Orpheus Abroad: A controversial subject -- The travesty of translation -- A sordid story -- Voices from the beyond -- Breathtaking and new. 
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