Music and Empire in Britain and India

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.

Autorentext
Bob van der Linden is an independent historian and musicologist. He also wrote Moral Languages from Colonial Punjab: The Singh Sabha, Arya Samaj and Ahmadiyahs (2008).

Inhalt

1. Cyril Scott: "The Father of Modern British Music" and the Occult 2. Percy Grainger: Kipling, Racialism, and All the World's Folk Music 3. John Foulds and Maud MacCarthy: Internationalism, Theosophy, and Indian Music 4. Rabindranath Tagore and Arnold Bake: Modernist Aesthetics and Cross-Cultural Communication in Bengali Folk Music 5. Sikh Sacred Music: Identity, Aesthetics, and Historical Change