Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth century. The book is in four themed sections. 'Portrayal of the East' traces the routes from encounter to representation and restores the Orient to its rightful place in histories of Orientalism. 'Interpreting Concert Music' looks at one of the principal forms in which Orientalism could be brought to an eager and largely receptive - yet sometimes resistant - mass market. 'Words and Music' investigates the confluence of musical and Orientalist themes in different genres of writing, including criticism, fiction and travel writing. Finally, 'The Orientalist Stage' discusses crucial sites of Orientalist representation - music theatre and opera - as well as tracing similar phenomena in twentieth-century Hindi cinema. These final chapters examine the rendering of the East as 'unachievable and unrecognizable' for the consuming gaze of the western spectator.

In This Book Notice Has Been Taken Of The Legendary Origin Of Music Among The Aryans, And Of Its Principles As Understood In Modern India; The Peculiar Scale And Rhythms Employed Have Been Described In Detail; And Examples Of Various Airs Are Given In Notation. A Classic.

"Sankaran examines the cultural and social matrix in which Carnatic music was cultivated and consumed in mid-twentieth century India, including the ways that musicians negotiated caste politics and the double standard for male and female musicians. Sankaran's memoir is interwoven with passages from Daniel M. Neuman's work on music in North India, which inspired Sankaran's project, and interviews with Sankaran by Matthew Allen"--

A Comprehensive Study Dealing With Music Of North-Eastern India With Special Emphasis On Musical Instruments Of Assam. Has Over 75 Colour Illustrations Which Add To The Usefulness Of The Book.

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.