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Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain

  • Author: Zon, Bennett
The message is clear: even in its beginning ethnomusicology was, on balance, a force for the good in a world awash with racism. . . . Zon produces an impressive body of evidence for his case.... More…

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Contents

  • Cultural Anthropology from the Late Eighteenth Century to the 1850s
  • The Interplay of Anthropology and Music: Nineteenth Century to the 1850s
  • Music in the Literature of Anthropology from the 1780s to the 1860s
  • Cultural Anthropology After Darwin
  • From Travel Literature to Academic Writing: Anthropology in the Musical Press from the 1830s to the 1930s
  • Non-Western Music in General Music Histories: Progression Toward Evolution
  • Histories of National Music (1): Henry Chorley and the Anthropological Background
  • Histories of National Music (2): Carl Engel and the Influence of Tylor
  • Overcoming Spencer: Late-Century Theories of the Origin of Music
  • Charles Samuel Myers and the General Movement Toward Individualism
  • From Individualism to Individual Differences
  • The Psychological Writings and the Place of Evolution and Individual Differences
  • Myer's Ethomusicological Writings
  • Transcription and the Problems of Translating Musical Culture
  • A.H. Fox Strangways and Attitudes Toward Song Translation
  • Fox Strangways and The Music of Hindostan