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Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World

Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World

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Series: Refiguring American Music

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ISBN10: 0822339579
ISBN13: 9780822339571
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Mar 5 2007
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.33
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.49
Language: English
In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures' understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term exoticism glosses over such differences in many studies of western music. Beyond Exoticism encompasses a range of musical genres and musicians, including Mozart, Beethoven, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Maurice Ravel, Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Bally Sagoo, and Bill Laswell as well as opera, symphony, country music, and world music. Yet, more than anything else, it is an argument for expanding the purview of musicology to take into account not only composers' lives and the formal properties of the music they produce but also the larger historical and cultural forces shaping both music and our understanding of it.

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