1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996209839303316

Titolo

Scientifica Acta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pavia, : Università degli Studi di Pavia

ISSN

1973-5227

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974225503321

Autore

Pisani Michael V

Titolo

Imagining native America in music / / Michael V. Pisani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2005

ISBN

9786611730857

9781281730855

1281730858

9780300130737

0300130732

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (439 p.)

Disciplina

781.5/9

Soggetti

Indians in music

Music - America - History and criticism

Music - Social aspects - America

Exoticism in music

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-414) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : a language for imagining native America -- New world Americans -- Exotic peoples, exotic sounds -- Nostalgia for a native land -- Americans again -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of



native America from the pre colonial past through the American West and up to the present. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, from the ballets of Lully in the court of Louis XIV to popular ballads of the nineteenth century; from eighteenth-century British-American theater to the musical theater of Irving Berlin; from chamber music by Dvoˆrák to film music for Apaches in Hollywood Westerns.Michael Pisani demonstrates how European colonists and their descendants were fascinated by the idea of race and ethnicity in music, and he examines how music contributed to the complex process of cultural mediation. Pisani reveals how certain themes and metaphors changed over the centuries and shows how much of this "Indian music," which was and continues to be largely imagined, alternately idealized and vilified the peoples of native America.