Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World

by Timothy D. Taylor

Book Overview

In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures' understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term "exoticism" glosses over such differences in many studies of western music. Beyond Exoticism encompasses a range of musical genres and musicians, including Mozart, Beethoven, Jean-Philippe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822339684
• ISBN13: 9780822339687
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"