Musical Exoticism. The Mediterranean and Beyond in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Book in english edited by Michael Christoforidis and Ramón Sobrino. Turnhout : Brepols, 2024. With the support of the Palazzetto Bru Zane.
The sound image of Otherness has been a significant source of inspiration for Western music, especially since the late eighteenth century. Encounters with the racial and geographical Other fomented interest in unfamiliar musical traditions, which informed exotic projections by Western composers. This volume explores aspects of musical exoticism and its staging during the long nineteenth century, with a special focus on the Mediterranean. This diverse and yet historically interconnected region was arguably the heart of the exotic enterprise during this period. The intersection of exoticism, nationalism and empire is considered, with a special focus on the situation of Spain as both source of local colour and purveyor of musical exoticism.
The essays in this volume explore elements of exoticism across a range of musical styles: from song to opera and the popular musical stage, and from instrumental to symphonic works. The analysis of this corpus also involves the examination of musical culture in dialogue with literature and figurative arts. While many of the essays focus on constructions of exoticism in individual works, several essays focus on repertories of musical exoticism and their coverage in musicological literature.
Contents
Michael Christoforidis & Ramón Sobrino – Preface
Musical Exoticism and the Mediterranean to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Ralph P. Locke – Leaving alla turca behind: The Middle East in Opera and Other Musical Genres, 1800-1850
María Encina Cortizo – Exotic Sounds of Spain: French Musical Imageries
Between Spain and the Orient: Musical Exoticism, Nationalism and the Alhambra
Ramón Sobrino – Musical Exoticisms in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Imaginary Sounds of Spanish Otherness
Francesc Cortès – Oriental and National Elements in the Early Operas of Felip Pedrell: Changes and Transformations of El último Abencerraje (1868) into L’ultimo Abenzeraggio (1889)
Gloria A. Rodríguez-Lorenzo & Francisco J. Giménez-Rodríguez – Granada la bella (1896): Musical Exoticism and Nostalgia at the Turn of the Century
Michael Christoforidis & Elizabeth Kertesz – Exoticism and Beyond: The Habanera, Alhambrism and Musical Modernity in Belle-époque Paris
Staging Exoticism in Opera
Roberto Scoccimarro – Otherness, Self-Afrmation and Self-Denial in Félicien David’s Opéras-comiques Lalla-Roukh (1862) and La captive (1864)
Valeria Wenderoth – Reynaldo Hahn’s L’Île du rêve (1898) and the Multi-Faceted Representation of Otherness
Stanislav Tuksar – Exoticism as a Specifc Expression of Otherness in Some Acculturation Phenomena within Nineteenth-Century Croatian Arts
Vjera Katalinić – Staging Exoticisms: Case Studies in the Operatic Iconography of the Late Nineteenth-Century Zagreb National Teatre
Exoticism in Song and Popular Musical Theatre
Nicolas Boiffin – Exoticism in the German Lied: E. Geibel and P. Heyse’s Spanisches Liederbuch and Its Musical Settings
Sonja Starkmeth – ‘Of to Cairo’: Musical Orientalism in Late Victorian Musical Comedy
Andrea García Torres – The bayadera on the Spanish Stage: Frivolity and Colonialism in European Cultures via the Orient
Paul Krejci – A Case Study of White American Male Othering in Early Twentieth-Century Popular Music: The Exotic Songs of Seattleite Minstrel Harold Taylor Weeks
Reflection
Jean-Pierre Bartoli – From 1974 to 2022: Some Reflections for a Short History of Studies on Exoticism and Orientalism in Music
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date de publication : 04/12/24