Representations of the Orient in Western Music
Regular price
€72.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Nasser Al-Taee
Act Iii
alla
Alla Turca
Alla Turca Style
Author_Nasser Al-Taee
Category=AVA
Category=AVLA
Central Palace
Christoph Hellmut Mahling
cross-cultural analysis
cultural identity in music
Der Elfen
Disney's Aladdin
Eastern Ethnic Practices
Eighteenth Century Instrumental Music
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_music
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
gender and race in music
Janissary Music
Lady Wortley Montagu
Le Turc
Martern Aller Arten
Mozart's Die
musicology
National Library
Oriental Male
Oriental Operas
Oriental Tale
orientalism studies
Osmin's Aria
Osmin's Rage
Program Music
religious representation
Rimsky Korsakov's Scheherazade
turca
Turkish Music
Voltaire's Mahomet
Western depictions of Islamic societies
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138273283
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book focuses on the cultural, political and religious representations of the Orient in Western music. Dr Nasser Al-Taee traces several threads in a vast repertoire of musical representations, concentrating primarily on the images of violence and sensuality. Al-Taee argues that these prevailing traits are not only the residual manifestation of the Ottoman threat to Western Europe, but also the continuation of a long and complex history of fear and fascination towards the Orient and its Islamic religion. In addition to analyses of musical works, Al-Taee draws on travel accounts, paintings, biographies, and political events to engage with important issues such as gender, race, and religious differences that may have contributed to the variously complex images of the Orient in Western music. The study extends the range of Orientalism to cover eighteenth-century Austria, nineteenth-century Russia, and twentieth-century America. The book challenges those scholars who do not see Orientalism as problematic and tend to ignore the role of musical representations in shaping the image of the Other within a wider interdisciplinary study of knowledge and power.
Dr Nasser Al-Taee is the director of Education and Outreach at the Royal Opera House, Muscat, Oman. Prior to this, he was an associate professor of musicology in the School of Music at the University of Tennessee. He holds a Ph.D in Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His primary research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music, including issues concerning representation, appropriation, race, and east-west relations.
