Representations of the Orient in Western Music: Violence and Sensuality
- Author: Al-Taee, Nasser
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Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Part I Introduction: Between violence and sensuality: Orientalism in musicology. Part II Prophets and Concubines: Models of Violence and Sensuality: The character of Muhammad: a model of violence and sensuality in the European image of the Orient
- Slaves, sultans and concubines: the components of illusion. Part III The 18th and 19th Centuries: the Contextualization of Knowledge: Music as noise: barbarity, deficiency, and intrusion in Western accounts of Turkish music
- Osmin's rage meets Selim's benevolence: the Oriental other in Mozart's Die EntfA1/4hrung aus dem Serail
- 200 years of Orientalism: construction of the Orient in Wieland's, Wranitzky's, Weber's, and Burgess' Oberon
- Whirling fanatics: Orientalism, politics and religious rivalry in Western operatic representations of the Orient. Part IV The Arabian Nights in Music and Film: Under the spell of magic: the Oriental tale in Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade
- Reel bad Arabs, really bad lyrics: villainous Arabs in Disney's Aladdin
- Select bibliography
- Index.