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European drama --- Exoticism in literature --- Exoticism in music --- Musical theater --- History and criticism --- History

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To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation for over 150 years. This perceived difference has inspired fantasies-of both desire and repulsion-through which Japanese culture has profoundly impacted the arts and industry of the U.S. While the influence of Japan on American and European painting, architecture, design, theater, and literature has been celebrated in numerous books and exhibitions, the role of music has been virtually ignored until now. Anthony Sheppard's Extreme Exoticism offers a detailed documentation and wide-ranging investigation of music's role in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the place of Japanese Americans in American musical life. Presenting numerous American encounters with and representations of Japanese music and Japan, this book reveals how music functions in exotic representation across a variety of genres and media, and how Japanese music has at various times served as a sign of modernist experimentation, a sounding board for defining American music, and a tool for reshaping conceptions of race and gender. From the Tin Pan Alley songs of the Russo-Japanese war period to Weezer's Pinkerton album, music has continued to inscribe Japan as the land of extreme exoticism. -- Book jacket.

Music --- Music --- Orientalism in music --- Exoticism in music. --- Japanese influences. --- History and criticism. --- History.

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During the years 1500-1800, European performing arts reveled in a kaleidoscope of Otherness: Middle-Eastern harem women, fortune-telling Spanish 'Gypsies', Incan priests, Barbary pirates, moresca dancers, and more. In this prequel to his 2009 book Musical Exoticism, Ralph P. Locke explores how exotic locales and their inhabitants were characterized in musical genres ranging from instrumental pieces and popular songs to oratorios, ballets, and operas. Locke's study offers new insights into much-loved masterworks by composers such as Cavalli, Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Mozart. In these works, evocations of ethnic and cultural Otherness often mingle attraction with envy or fear, and some pieces were understood at the time as commenting on conditions in Europe itself. Locke's accessible study, which includes numerous musical examples and rare illustrations, will be of interest to anyone who is intrigued by the relationship between music and cultural history and by the challenges of cross-cultural (mis)understanding.

Music --- anno 1500-1799 --- Exoticism in music --- Exotisme en musique --- Exotisme in muziek --- History and criticism --- 16th century --- 17th century --- 18th century --- Exoticism in music. --- Exoticism in opera. --- Opera --- Music, Exotic --- History and criticism. --- Music. --- 1500-1799.

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During the 1950s and early 1960s musical exotica produced by performers such as Les Baxter, Martin Denny, and Arthur Lyman enjoyed international success. The advent of rock music in the mid-1960s, however, led to the form's demise. A new generation recently has discovered this music and its styles in an ultra-chic nightclub culture that has appeared in urban areas of North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Many of the original recordings have been re-released, drawing the original performers out of retirement. Contributors to Widening the Horizon trace the rise and characteristics of this music and explore its role in cross-cultural communication. Leading popular music scholars examine exotica in terms of key performers and the implications of the production of both Oriental and Occidental exoticisms in the West and elsewhere. Chapters discuss Korla Pandit, Yma Sumac, tropical cool, soy sauce music, and Yanni, as well as many others.

Popular music --- Music --- Exoticism in music. --- History and criticism. --- Effect of multiculturalism on. --- Popular music - History and criticism. --- Music - Effect of multiculturalism on.

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Réflexion pluridisciplinaire autour de la notion d'altérité musicale, sa construction, son historiographie, ses conséquences sur une nouvelle forme de composition musicale savante et sur l'élargissement de nouveaux horizons musicaux multiculturels en Occident.

Music --- Exoticism in music --- Musique --- Exotisme dans la musique --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Congresses --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Congrès --- History and criticism --- Effect of multiculturalism on --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Congrès --- 78.16 La Côte-Saint-André 2011 --- 78.34 --- Music - Europe - 19th century - History and criticism - Congresses --- Exoticism in music - Congresses --- Music - Effect of multiculturalism on - Congresses