Olivia A. Bloechl (Los Angeles University of California)

Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on evidence from a wide array of musical, linguistic, and visual sources, this book demonstrates that early American colonization shaped European music cultures in fundamental ways. It offers a fresh, politically and transculturally informed approach to the study of music in the early colonial Atlantic world.

Produktdetails

• New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 301
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781108940832
• ISBN-10: 1108940838
• Artikelnr.: 60015614

Autorenporträt

Olivia A. Bloechl is Assistant Professor in the Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

1. On colonial difference and musical frontiers: directions for a postcolonial musicology
Part I. Transatlantic Savagery: 2. Protestant imperialism and the metaphysics of new world song
3. The voice of possession
4. The voice of prophecy
Part II. Staging the Indian: 5. Musicking Indians in the Stuart court masque
6. Savage Lully
7. Rameau's Les sauvages and the aporia of musical nature
Conclusion. Opera, elsewhere.