Native American Song At the Frontiers of Early Modern Music

Informationen zum Autor Olivia A. Bloechl is Assistant Professor in the Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext A study of how Native American music changed the course of European music history. Zusammenfassung 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. It offers a fresh, politically and transculturally informed approach to the study of music in the early colonial Atlantic world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Olivia A Bloechl, Olivia A. Bloechl, Olivia A. (University of California Bloechl, Bloechl Olivia A., Bloechl Olivia A. Bloechl
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781108940832
• ISBN: 978-1-108-94083-2
• No. of pages: 301
• Series: New Perspectives in Music Hist; New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; USA, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, Indigenous Peoples, United States of America, USA, Music: styles and genres, Relating to Native American people, Music: styles & genres, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, Indigenous styles