Musical Voyages and Their Baggage: Orientalism in Music and Critical Musicology

Bellman discusses orientalism in music. The word "orientalism," largely as a result of Edward Said's 1978 book, has in recent decades generated a good deal of attention in musicology, music criticism and in critical writing about the other arts. Inconveniently, though, the word has a...

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Published inThe Musical quarterly Vol. 94; no. 3; pp. 417 - 438
Main Author Bellman, Jonathan D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Oxford University Press 01.09.2011
Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
Subjects
Exoticism
Imperialism
Literary criticism
Music analysis
Music composition
Music criticism
Musical aesthetics
Musical criticism
Musicology
Opera
Orientalism
Postcolonial literature
Texts and Contexts
Writers
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Summary:Bellman discusses orientalism in music. The word "orientalism," largely as a result of Edward Said's 1978 book, has in recent decades generated a good deal of attention in musicology, music criticism and in critical writing about the other arts. Inconveniently, though, the word has a long history and more than one meaning. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1973) gives the most traditional one, tucking orientalism under the word orient with the brief, bland definition "oriental character, style, or quality," with orientalist being "one versed in oriental languages and literature."
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ISSN:0027-4631
1741-8399
DOI:10.1093/musqtl/gdr014