Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire write by Sarah Kirby. This book was released on 2022. Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century. These vast events aimed to illustrate, through displays of physical objects, the full spectrum of the world's achievements, from industry and manufacturing, to art and design. But exhibitions were not just visual spaces. Music was ever present, as a fundamental part of these events' sonic landscape, and integral to the visitor experience. This book explores music at international exhibitions held in Australia, India, and the United Kingdom during the 1880s. At these exhibitions, music was codified, ordered, and all-round 'exhibited' in manifold ways. Displays of physical instruments from the past and present were accompanied by performances intended to educate or to entertain, while music was heard at exhibitors' stands, in concert halls, and in the pleasure gardens that surrounded the exhibition buildings. Music was depicted as a symbol of human artistic achievement, or employed for commercial ends. At times it was presented in nationalist terms, at others as a marker of universalism. This book argues, by interrogating the multiple ways that music was used, experienced, and represented, that exhibitions can demonstrate in microcosm many of the broader musical traditions, purposes, arguments, and anxieties of the day. Its nine chapters focus on sociocultural themes, covering issues of race, class, public education, economics, and entertainment in the context of music, trading these through the networks of communication that existed within the British Empire at the time. Combining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation of music at exhibitions drew the press and public into broader debates about music's role in society"--Page 4 of cover.
Peoples on Parade
Peoples on Parade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peoples on Parade write by Sadiah Qureshi. This book was released on 2011-10-31. Peoples on Parade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the phenomenon of human exhibitions in nineteenth-century Britain and considers how this legacy informs understandings of race and empire today.
Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s
Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s write by Martin Clayton. This book was released on 2007. Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth ce
Exhibiting the Empire
Exhibiting the Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exhibiting the Empire write by John McAleer. This book was released on 2017-03-01. Exhibiting the Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products – from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and ‘popular’ texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture – were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media, material culture and display, and their interaction with history. Taken together, this collection suggests that the history of empire needs to be, in part at least, a history of display and of reception. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British history, the history of empire, art history and the history of museums and collecting.
An Empire on Display
An Empire on Display - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Empire on Display write by Peter H. Hoffenberg. This book was released on 2001-05-20. An Empire on Display available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of world's fairs in Britain and its two most important 19th-century colonies, Australia and India; arguing that the fairs provided a forum for shaping both national and imperial identities.
