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...on 17-SEP-08
Devitt,R . "Asian music" Asian music [0044-9202] 39.1 (2008). 108-134.
| The Enlightenment saw a critical engagement with the ancient idea that music carries certain powers--it heals and pacifies, civilizes and educates. Yet this interest in musical utility seems to conflict with larger notions of aesthetic autonomy that emerged at the same time. This apparent conflict raises questions about the notion of an aesthetic-philosophical break between the 18th and 19th c. The English traveler and music scholar Charles Burney is connected with the ancient myth of Orpheus in discussions of 18th-c. musical travel, views on music's curative powers, interest in non-European music, and concerns about cultural identity. Arguing that what people said about music was central to some of the great Enlightenment debates surrounding such issues as human agency, cultural difference, and national identity, this book adds a new dimension to postcolonial studies, which has typically emphasized the literary and visual at the expense of the aural. It also demonstrates that these discussions must be viewed in context at the era's broad and well-entrenched transnational network, and emphasizes the importance of travel literature in generating knowledge at the time. (publisher) |
Agnew,V . Enlightenment Orpheus. [0-19-533666-6]
| Introduction to the major strands of thought that have developed over the last century by world music scholars. A brief history of each theory and its founders is presented, along with practical applications. Topics covered include structural approaches, linguistics, Marxist explanations, cognition and communication theories, performance theory, gender, ethnicity, and identity studies, phenomenology, historical research, and postmodern, postcolonial, and global issues. (publisher) |
Stone,R M . Theory for ethnomusicology.. [0-13-240840-6]
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...on 08-SEP-08