Music and Empire in Britain and India : Identity, Internationalism, and Cross-Cultural Communication
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1137311630
ISBN-13
9781137311634
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 22nd, 2013
Print length
219 Pages
Weight
402 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 15.70 x 1.70 cms
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Music has been neglected by imperial historians, but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational, moral, and aesthetic motives underlying the institutionalization of "classical" music converged and diverged in Britain and India from 1880-1940.
Partly because of academic disciplinary boundaries, music remains a neglected subject in British Imperial history and, indeed, intellectual history at large. Nonetheless, the imperial encounter was, as this richly detailed new study demonstrates, a sound e
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