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Orientalism in music --- Music --- Orientalisme dans la musique --- Musique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique

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"This book examines the musical ramifications of Russian nineteenth-century expansion to the east and south and explores the formation and development of Russian musical discourse on Russia's own Orient. It traces the transition from music ethnography to art songs and discusses how various aspects of (music) ethnographies, folksong collections, music theories, and visual representations of Russia's ethnic minorities, or inorodtsy, shaped Russian composers' perception and musical representation of Russia's oriental "others." Situated on the periphery, minority peoples not only defined the geographical boundaries of the empire, its culture, and its music, but also defined the boundaries of Russianness itself. Extensively illustrated with music examples, archival material, and images from long-forgotten Russian sources, this book investigates historical, cultural, and musical elements which contributed to the formation and creation of Russia's imperial identity. It delineates musical elements that have been adopted to characterize Russians' own national hybridity. Three case studies-well-known leader of the Mighty Five Milii Balakirev, lesser known Alexander Aliab'ev, and the late-nineteenth-century composers affiliated with the Music-Ethnography Committee-demonstrate how and why, despite the overwhelming number of pejorative images and descriptions of inorodtsy, these composers decided to "forget" their social and political differences and sometimes "confused" and combined diverse minorities' identities with that of the "self." The analysis of the arrangements of folksongs of Russia's eastern and southern minorities reveals the trajectory of musical treatment from denigration and "othering" to embracing peoples from all provinces of the empire"-- What is the place of ethnic minorities in the identity and culture of the majority? What happens when the colonizer appropriates the culture of the colonized? Throughout Russia's nineteenth-century expansion into the Caucasus and Central Asia, Russian intellectuals struggled with these questions that cut to the core of imperial identity. Representing Russia's Orient draws on political, cultural, and social history to tell the story of how Russia's imperial advancements and encounters with its southern and eastern neighbors influenced the development of Russian musical identity. While Russia's ethnic minorities, or inorodtsy, were located at the geographical and cultural periphery, they loomed large in composers' musical imagination and became central to the definition of Russianness itself.Drawing from previously untapped archival and published materials, including music scores, visual art, and ethnographies, author Adalyat Issiyeva offers an in-depth study of Russian musical engagement with oriental subjects. Within a complex matrix of politics, competing ideological currents, and social and cultural transformations, some Russian composers and writers developed multidimensional representations of oriental "others" and sometimes even embraced elements of Asian musical identity. Mapping the vast repertoire of bylinas, military and children songs, music ethnographies, rare collections of Asian folk songs, art songs inspired by Decembrist literature, and the art music of famous composers from the Mighty Five and their followers — all set against the development of oriental studies in Russia — the book sheds new light on how and why Russians sometimes rejected, sometimes absorbed and transformed elements of Asian history and culture in forging their own national identity.

Music --- Folk songs --- Orientalism in music --- Orientalism --- Ethnology --- 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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"Grounded in new archival research documenting a significant presence of foreign and racially-marked individuals in Medici Florence, this book argues for the relevance of such individuals to the history of Western music and for the importance of sound-particularly musical and vocal sounds-to systems of racial and ethnic difference. Many of the individuals discussed in these pages were subject to enslavement or conditions of unfree labor; some labored at tasks that were explicitly musical or theatrical, while all intersected with sound and with practices of listening that afforded full personhood only to particular categories of people. Integrating historical detail alongside contemporary performances and musical conventions, this book makes the forceful claim that operatic musical techniques were-from their very inception-imbricated with racialized differences. Race, Voice, and Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Florence offers both a macro and micro approach to its content. The first half of the volume draws upon a wide range of archival, theatrical and historical sources to articulate the theoretical interdependence of razza (lit. "race"), voice, and music in early modern Italy; the second half focuses on the life and work of a specific, racially-marked individual: the enslaved, Black, male soprano singer, Giovannino Buonaccorsi (fl. 1651-1674). Race, Voice, and Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Florence reframes the place of racial difference in Western art music and provides a compelling pre-history to later racial formulations of the sonic"--

Chanteurs --- Enslaved persons --- Esclaves --- Music and race --- Music and race. --- Music --- Music. --- Musique et race --- Musique --- Orientalism in music --- Orientalism in music. --- Orientalisme dans la musique --- Singers --- Singers. --- Social conditions --- History --- Conditions sociales --- Histoire --- History and criticism --- Political aspects --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Aspect politique --- Aspect social --- Histoire et critique --- Buonaccorsi, Giovannino, --- 1600-1699. --- Italy

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"Voltaire s'est-il vraiment inspiré, dans le chapitre 'L'ermite' de Zadig, de l'histoire de Moïse et du serviteur de Dieu, racontée dans le Coran ? Quelle est la vraie source de l'adaptation que Goethe propose dans son Divan occidental-oriental du 'chant de vengeance' de Ta'abbata Sharran ? Sait-on que Hugo, dans une note des Orientales, donne, à côté de poèmes persans et du 'pantoum malai', vingt et un extraits de poètes arabes, que lui a fournis un certain Ernest Fouinet et qui constituent une véritable petite anthologie de la poésie arabe archaïque ? Pourquoi la 'sentence orientale' de La Peau de chagrin, présentée par Balzac comme 'sanscrite', est-elle non seulement en caractères arabes, mais encore en arabe ? La pièce Antar du Libanais Chekri Ganem n'est-elle pas un parfait exemple de métissage culturel ? Aragon 'arabise'-t-il vraiment dans son poème de jeunesse Bouée, qu'il présentera près d'un demi-siècle après comme issu des Fables de Lokman, dans la version de Cherbonneau, et comme le premier maillon d'une chaîne conduisant au Fou d'Elsa, par sa remise en cause de la conception du temps ? Six oeuvres et autant de questions sur l'orientalisme littéraire et sa connexion avec l'orientalisme savant. Connexion que l'on retrouve en épilogue dans le septième essai, consacré à un genre, l'opéra, qui prolonge le livre en livret et la littérature en musique, tissant leurs liens à travers l'Europe entière, souvent en étroite relation avec le contexte historique."--Page 4 of cover.

Littérature occidentale --- Orientalisme (littérature) --- Influence arabe --- French literature --- Orientalism in literature --- Orientalism in music --- Themes, motives --- Influence arabe. --- French literature - Themes, motives --- Littérature française --- Orientalisme --- Orient et Occident. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Dans l'opéra.