Western Music and Race

Contents

• Preface Music, history, trauma: Western music and race 1883-1933 Julie Brown;
• Part I . Overviews and Critical Frameworks:
• 1. Erasure: displacing and misplacing race in twentieth-century music historiography Philip V. Bohlman;
• 2. Secrets, lies, and transcriptions: revisions on race, black music and culture Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jnr.;
• 3. 'Gypsy Violins' and 'Hot Rhythms': race, popular music and governmentality Brian Currid;
• 4. The concept of race in German musical discourse Pamela M. Potter;
• Part II . Racial Ideologies:
• 5. Strange love, or, How we learnt to stop worrying and love Wagner's Parsifal John Deathridge;
• 6. Otto Weininger and musical discourse in turn-of-the-century Vienna Julie Brown;
• 7. Ancestral voices: anti-Semitism and Ernest Bloch's racial theories of art Klara Moricz;
• 8. Percy Grainger and the American Nordicists Malcolm Gillies and David Pear;
• 9. Race and hybridity: Kaikhosru Sorabji's 'Oriental Orientalism' Nalini Ghuman Gwynne;
• Part III . Local Contexts:
• 10. Race, identity, and difference: musical acclimatisation and the Chansons populaires in Third Republic France Jann Pasler;
• 11. The anti-Semitic strain in German writing on music: 1900-33 Erik Levi;
• 12. Italian music and racial discourses during the Fascist Period Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Sala;
• 13. Romanticism, technology, and the masses: Honegger and the aesthetic allure of French Fascism Jane F. Fulcher;
• 14. The concept of race in Spanish musical literature (1915-36) Gemma Perez-Zalduondo;
• 15. Manuel de Falla, flamenco and Spanish identity Michael Christoforidis;
• 16. 'The old sweet Anglo-Saxon spell': racial discourses and the American reception of British music 1895-1945 Alain Frogley;
• 17. Re-thinking the Revue negre: the critical reception of black musical shows in twenties' and thirties' Paris Andy Fry.