Table of Contents

Preface: Music, history, trauma: Western music and race 1883–1933 Julie Brown; Part I. Overviews and Critical Frameworks: 1. Erasure: displacing and misplacing race in twentieth-century music historiography Philip V. Bohlman; 2. Secrets, lies, and transcriptions: revisions on race, black music and culture Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jnr.; 3. 'Gypsy Violins' and 'Hot Rhythms': race, popular music and governmentality Brian Currid; 4. The concept of race in German musical discourse Pamela M. Potter; Part II. Racial Ideologies: 5. Strange love, or, How we learnt to stop worrying and love Wagner's Parsifal John Deathridge; 6. Otto Weininger and musical discourse in turn-of-the-century Vienna Julie Brown; 7. Ancestral voices: anti-Semitism and Ernest Bloch's racial theories of art Klara Moricz; 8. Percy Grainger and the American Nordicists Malcolm Gillies and David Pear; 9. Race and hybridity: Kaikhosru Sorabji's 'Oriental Orientalism' Nalini Ghuman Gwynne; Part III. Local Contexts: 10. Race, identity, and difference: musical acclimatisation and the Chansons populaires in Third Republic France Jann Pasler; 11. The anti-Semitic strain in German writing on music: 1900–33 Erik Levi; 12. Italian music and racial discourses during the Fascist Period Roberto Illiano and Massimiliano Sala; 13. Romanticism, technology, and the masses: Honegger and the aesthetic allure of French Fascism Jane F. Fulcher; 14. The concept of race in Spanish musical literature (1915–36) Gemma Perez-Zalduondo; 15. Manuel de Falla, flamenco and Spanish identity Michael Christoforidis; 16. 'The old sweet Anglo-Saxon spell': racial discourses and the American reception of British music 1895–1945 Alain Frogley; 17. Re-thinking the Revue negre: the critical reception of black musical shows in twenties' and thirties' Paris Andy Fry.

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A collection of essays analysing the intersection between music and racial discourses.

About the Author

Julie Brown is Senior Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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'… a densely packed and annotated, but hugely readable, survey. … All in all, a tremendous read, edited to a high standard.' Gramophone