Books--Exoticism in Music

Readings on Exoticism in Music

Surveys

Glenn Watkins. Pyramids at the Louvre : Music, Culture, and cCllage from Stravinsky to the Postmodernists. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.

Culture

Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer. Literary Criticism; Literary and cultural Studies, fourth edition. New York: Longman, c1998.

Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Edward W. Said. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, c 1978.

David A. Hollinger. Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism. Basic Books c1995.

Music

Jonathan Bellman, ed. The Exotic in Western Music.Boston: Northeastern University Press, c1998.

Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh, eds. Western Music and Its Others. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000.

Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music: A Continuing Symposium. Selected and annotated by Richard Kostelanetz and joseph Darby. New York: Schirmer Books, c1996.

Bryan R. Simms, ed. Composers on Modern Musical Culture. New York: Schirmer Books, 1999.

Exoticism in Western Music

Debussy

Richard Langham Smith. Debussy Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c1997.

Richard S. Parks. The Music of Claude Debussy. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1989.

The Ballets Russes

Ballets Russes. London: The Apple Press, c1989.

Stravinsky

Stravinsky Retrospectives. Ethan Haimo and Paul Johnson, ed. Lincoln: Universit of Nebraska Press, c1987.

Jonathan Cross. The Stravinsky Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c1998.

Richard Taruskin. Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, two volumes. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996.

Joan Pasler. Debussy, Stravinsky, and the Ballets Russes: The Emergence of a New Musical Logic. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1981.

Amalgamation

SpiritualsJon Cruz. Culture on the Margins: the Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural Interpretation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, c1999.

John Storm Roberts. Black Music of Two Worlds: African, Caribbean, Latin, and African-American Traditions. New York: Schirmer Books, c1998 (originally published 1972)

Ragtime: Scott Joplin

John Edward Hasse. Ragtime: its History, Composers, and Music. New York: Schirmer Books, c1985.

Jazz

Joachim E. Berendt. The Jazz Book, from Ragtime to Fusian and Beyond. Revised by Guenther Huesmann. H. and B. Bredigkeit with Dan Morgenstern and Tim Nevill, trsl. Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill Books, c1992.

Ted Gioia. The History of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997

Ellington

John Edward Hasse. Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1993.

Ken Rattenbury. Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer. London: Yale University Press, c1990

Mark Tucker, ed. The Duke Ellington Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Gershwin

Wayne Schneider, ed. The Gershwin Style. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Rock and Roll History

Charles T. Brown. The Art of Rock and Roll, Third Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1992. A textbook

Paul Friedlander. Rock and Roll, a Social History. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, c1996.

Neil Nehring. Popular Music, Gender, and Postmodernism. London: Sage Puiblications, 1997

Transformation

Bartok

Erno Lendvai. Bela Bartok, An Analysis of His Music. London: Kahn & Averill, c1971, 1979.

Bartok and His World. Peter Laki, ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1995.

Paul Wilson. The Music of Bela Bartok. New Haven: Yale Uiversity Press, 1992.

Music of India

Anupam Mahajan. Ragas in Indian Classical Music. Foreword by Ravi Shankar. New Delhi: Gian Publishing House, c1989.

Messiaen

Anthony Pople. Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c1998

Cage

David Revill. The Roaring Silence; John Cage: A Life. New York: Arcade Publishing, c1992

Reich

Steve Reich. Writings about Music. NY: NYU Pr, c1974.

Multi-Culturalism

Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh, eds. Western Music and Its Others. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000.

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