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Auteur(s) : Bushnell, Cameron Fae
Titre(s) : Postcolonial readings of music in world literature [Texte imprimé] : turning empire on its ear / Cameron Fae Bushnell
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2013
Description matérielle : viii, 204 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
Lien à la collection : Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
Comprend : Introduction: Beyond Contrapuntalism: A Politics of Alterity in World Literature
; Part I: The Amateurs. Borrowing from History, History from Borrowing: Opera on
Banjo in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace ; Subjectivity and the Genre of Nocturnes in Chang-rae
Lee's Gesture Life ; Music, Muteness, and Listening in Hulme's the bone people and
Campion's The Piano. ; Part II: The Virtuosi. (De- ) Composing the Nation: Noise,
Ornamentation, and Repetition in McEwan's Amsterdam and MacLaverty's Grace Notes ;
The Art of Tuning: A Politics of Exile in Mason's The Piano Tuner and Seth's An Equal
Music ; Articulation and Allegory in Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet ; Coda.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index
"This book reads representations of Western music in literary texts to reveal the
ways in which artifacts of imperial culture function within contemporary world literature.
Bushnell argues that Western music's conventions for performance, composition, and
listening, established during the colonial period, persist in postcolonial thought
and practice. Music from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods (Bach through
Brahms) coincides with the rise of colonialism, and Western music contains imperial
attitudes and values embedded within its conventions, standards, and rules. The book
focuses on the culture of classical music as reflected in the worlds of characters
and texts and contends that its effects outlast the historical significance of the
real composers, pieces, styles, and forms. Through examples by authors such as McEwan,
Vikram Seth, Bernard MacLaverty, Chang-rae Lee, and J.M. Coetzee, the book demonstrates
how Western music enters narrative as both acts of history and as structures of analogy
that suggest subject positions, human relations, and political activity that, in turn,
describes a postcolonial condition. The uses to which Western music is put in each
literary text reveals how European art music of the seventeenth through the nineteenth
centuries is read and misread by postcolonial generations, exposing mostly hidden
cultural structures that influence our contemporary understandings of social relations
and hierarchies, norms for resolution and for assigning significance, and standards
of propriety. The book presents strategies for thinking anew about the persistence
of cultural imperialism, reading Western music simultaneously as representative of
imperial, cultural dominance and as suggestive of resistant structures, forms, and
practices that challenge the imperial hegemony."--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Musique -- Dans la littérature
Littérature postcoloniale -- Thèmes, motifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415539562 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0415539560 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435906159
Notice n° :
FRBNF43590615
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