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OverviewOlivia 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Olivia A. Bloechl (University of California, Los Angeles)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.467kg ISBN: 9781108940832ISBN 10: 1108940838 Pages: 301 Publication Date: 15 October 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. 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.ReviewsBloechl's detailed investigation of relationships and interfaces, conflicts and accommodations, is wide-ranging, thoughtful, and persuasive. Her book is an important contribution not only to music studies but to Native American Studies, a broad, interdisciplinary field. --Journal of American Ethnic History """Bloechl’s detailed investigation of relationships and interfaces, conflicts and accommodations, is wide-ranging, thoughtful, and persuasive. Her book is an important contribution not only to music studies but to Native American Studies, a broad, interdisciplinary field. --Journal of American Ethnic History" Author InformationOlivia A. Bloechl is Assistant Professor in the Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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