Postcolonial Readings of Music in World Literature.
This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature. Bushnell argues that Western music's conventions for performance, composition, and listening, established during the coloni...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Series: | Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature.
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| Summary: | This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature. Bushnell argues that Western music's conventions for performance, composition, and listening, established during the colonial period, persist in postcolonial thought and practice. Music from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods (Bach through Brahms) coincides with the rise of colonialism, and Western music contains imperial attitudes and values embedded within its conventions, standards, and rules. The book focuse. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781136264641 1136264647 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |