Native American Song At the Frontiers Of Early Modern Music
By: Bloechl, Olivia (Author).
Cambridge University Press. Published: 27/03/2008. Audience Guide: Professional & Vocational.
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
Olivia A. Bloechl reconceives the history of French and English music from the sixteenth through to the eighteenth century from the perspective of colonial history. She demonstrates how encounters with Native American music in the early years of colonization changed the course of European music history. Colonial wealth provided for sumptuous and elite musical display, and American musical practices, materials, and ideas fed Europeans' taste for exoticism, as in the masques, ballets, and operas discussed here. The gradual association of Native American song with derogatory stereotypes of musical 'savagery' pressed Europeans to distinguish their own music as civilized and rational. 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, and it offers a fresh, politically and transculturally informed approach to the study of music in the early colonial Atlantic world. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 0521866057/9780521866057
TITLE: Native American Song at the Frontiers of Early Modern Music
CONTRIBUTORS: Bloechl, Olivia (Author)
IMPRINT: Cambridge University Press
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 27/03/2008
SUBJECT: Music, Society, Vocal, Ethnic
PAGES: 304
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Professional & Vocational
ILLUSTRATIONS: 12 half-tones 3 tables 23 music examples
CONTENTS: 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.
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