Literature, Music and Cosmopolitanism: Culture as Migration 1st Edition Robert Fraser

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• ISBN 10: 3319684809
• ISBN 13:  9783319684802
• Author: Robert Fraser 

This book focuses on the twin arts of literature and music, supporting the notion that cosmopolitanism is the natural condition of all the arts, and that all culture – without exception – is migrant culture. It draws on examples ranging from the first to the twenty-first centuries AD, on locations as remote as Alexandria and Australia, on writers as different as Virgil and V.S.Naipaul, Arnold and Achebe, and on musicians as diverse as Bach and Bartok, Purcell and Steve Reich. Across thirteen chapters, the study explores the interpenetration of all forms of human expression, the fallacy of ‘national’ traditions and limiting conceptions of regional character. The result is an exploration of artistic and intellectual endeavour that is particularly welcome in the current political climate, encouraging us to view history in ways informed by our contemporary demographic and cultural concerns. Taken either as a series of interrelated case studies, or else as an evolving and sequential argument, this book is vital reading for scholars of music, literature, and cultural and social history.

Table contents:

1. Culture as Migration
2. Is There a Gibbon in the House? Migration, Post-nationality and the Fall and Rise of Europe
3. Roma and Roaming: Borders, Nomads and Myth
4. Of Sirens, Science and Oyster Shells: Hypatia the Philosopher from Gibbon to Black Athena
5. Cultural Migration as Protestant Nostalgia: (1) British Listeners in Italy
6. Cultural Migration as Protestant Nostalgia: (2) Milton, Ruskin and Religious Longing
7. Cultural Migration as Protestant Nostalgia: (3) Purcell, the Popish Plot and the Politics of Latin
8. Migrant Consciences in the Age of Empire: Charles Kingsley, Governor Eyre and the Morant Bay Rising
9. Beyond the National Stereotype: Benedict Anderson and the Bengal Emergency of 1905–06
10. Migrating Stories: How Textbooks Fired a Canon
11. Towards a New World Order: Literacy, Democracy and Literature in India and Africa, 1930–1965
12. World Music: Listening to Steve Reich Listening to Africa; Listening to György Ligeti Listening to Reich
13. A Cultural Cosmopolis

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