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Music, modernity, and the global imagination : South Africa and the West

Author: Veit Erlmann
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Veit Erlmann
ISBN: 0195123670 9780195123678
OCLC Number: 39060556
Description: viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Pt. I. "Heartless Swindle": The African Choir and the Zulu Choir in England and America. 1. Archaic Images, Utopian Dreams: Forms of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness. 2. "Style Is Just the Man Himself": (Auto)Biography, Self-Identity, and Fictions of Global Order. 3. Inventing the Metropolis: Josiah Semouse's Travel Diary and the Dilemmas of Representation. 4. "Spectatorial Lust": Spectacle and the Crisis of Imperial Knowledge. 5. Symbols of Inclusion and Exclusion: Nationalism, Colonial Consciousness, and the "Great Hymn" 6. Variations upon a Theme: The Zulu Choir in London, 1892-93. 7. "God's Own Country": Black America, South Africa, and the Spirituals. 8. Interlude --
Pt. II. "Days of Miracle and Wonder": Graceland and the Continuities of the Postcolonial World. 9. Figuring Culture: The Crisis of Modernity and Twentieth-Century Historical Consciousness. 10. Hero on the Pop Chart: Paul Simon and the Aesthetics of World Music.
Responsibility: Veit Erlmann.
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