‎Michael Christoforidis, Ramón Sobrino (eds)‎
‎Musical Exoticism. The Mediterranean and Beyond in the Long Nineteenth Century‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, xii + 392 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:39 b/w, 16 tables b/w., 34 musical examples, Language: English. ISBN 9782503611778.‎

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‎Summary 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. TABLE OF 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 19th-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-Affirmation 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 Specific Expression of Otherness in Some Acculturation Phenomena within Nineteenth-Century Croatian Arts Vjera Kataliníc, Staging Exoticisms: Case Studies in the Operatic Iconography of the Late Nineteenth-Century Zagreb National Theatre 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, 'Off 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 20th 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