TY - BOOK AU - Pisani,Michael TI - Imagining native America in music SN - 9780300130737 (electronic bk.) AV - ML3549 .P57 2005eb U1 - 781.5/9 22 PY - 2005/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Music KW - America KW - History and criticism KW - Social aspects KW - Exoticism in music KW - MUSIC KW - Instruction & Study KW - Theory KW - bisacsh KW - მუსიკა KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-414) and index; Introduction : a language for imagining native America -- New world Americans -- Exotic peoples, exotic sounds -- Nostalgia for a native land -- Americans again -- Conclusion N2 - This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of native America from the pre-colonial past through the American West and up to the present. The discussion covers a wide range of topics from the ballets of Lully in the court of Louis XIV to popular ballads of the 19th century; from 18th-century British-American theatre to the musical theatre of Irving Berlin; from chamber music by Dvorak to film music for Apaches in Hollywood Westerns. Michael Pisani demonstrates how European colonists and their descendents were fascinated by the idea of race and ethnicity in music, and he examines how music contributed to the complex process of cultural mediation. Pisani reveals how certain themes and metaphors changed over the centuries and shows how much of this 'Indian music', which was and continues to be largely imagined, alternately idealised and vilified the peoples of native America UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=188121 ER -