基本説明
Explores the influence of anthropological theories, travel literature, psychology, and other intellectual trends on the perception of non-Western music and elucidates the roots of the term "ethnomusicology".
Full Description
Bennett Zon's Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain is the first book to situate non-Western music within the intellectual culture of nineteenth-century Britain. It covers many crucial issues -- race, orientalism, otherness, evolution -- and explores the influence of important anthropological theories on the perception of non-Western music. The book also considers a wide range of other writings of the period, from psychology and travel literature to musicology and theories of musical transcription, and it reflects on the historically problematic term "ethnomusicology."Representing Non-Western Music discusses such theories as noble simplicity, monogenism and polygenism, the comparative method, degenerationism, and developmentalism. Zon looks at the effect of evolutionism on the musical press, general music histories, and histories of national music. He also treats the work of Charles Samuel Myers, the first Britain to record non-Western music in the field, and explores how A. H. Fox Strangways used contemporary translation theory as an analogy for transcription in The Music of Hindostan (1914) to show that individuality can be retained by embracing foreign elements rather than adapting them to Western musical style.Bennett Zon is Reader in Music and Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University UK and author of Music and Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century British Musicology (Ashgate, 2000).
Contents
Cultural Anthropology from the Late Eighteenth Century to the 1850sThe Interplay of Anthropology and Music: Nineteenth Century to the 1850sMusic in the Literature of Anthropology from the 1780s to the 1860sCultural Anthropology After DarwinFrom Travel Literature to Academic Writing: Anthropology in the Musical Press from the 1830s to the 1930sNon-Western Music in General Music Histories: Progression Toward EvolutionHistories of National Music (1): Henry Chorley and the Anthropological BackgroundHistories of National Music (2): Carl Engel and the Influence of TylorOvercoming Spencer: Late-Century Theories of the Origin of MusicCharles Samuel Myers and the General Movement Toward IndividualismFrom Individualism to Individual DifferencesThe Psychological Writings and the Place of Evolution and Individual DifferencesMyer's Ethomusicological WritingsTranscription and the Problems of Translating Musical CultureA.H. Fox Strangways and Attitudes Toward Song TranslationFox Strangways and The Music of Hindostan
