Indian Music and the West (Clarendon Paperbacks) - Softcover

Farrell, Gerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198167172 ISBN 13: 9780198167174

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 2000

Synopsis

Indian Music and the West examines perceptions and representations of Indian music in the West over a period of two hundred years, ranging from orientalist studies of Indian history and culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to the adoption of elements from Indian music in Western popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century. Gerry Farrell charts the place of Indian music within the context of colonialism, the use of Indian imagery in Western popular songs and on the stage, and the early days of the gramophone in India. Farrell also demonstrates how Indian music has been discovered and re-discovered in the West, and how these discoveries have reflected changing cultural, social, and political relations between India and the West. This is the story of the interface between two sophisticated and complex musical systems.

About this title

About the Author:

Gerry Farrell is at City University, London.

Review:

"Fascinating."--Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0198167172
• ISBN 13: 9780198167174
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256