6. Non-Western Music in General Music Histories: Progression toward Evolution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. Introduction: Humanizing the Musical Savage: Orientalism and Racism in the History of British Ethnomusicology 1
7. Part 1: Early Anthropological Influences
8. 1. Cultural Anthropology from the Late Eighteenth Century to the 1850s 17
9. 2. The Interplay of Anthropology and Music: Nineteenth-Century Travel Literature 25
10. 3. Music in the Literature of Anthropology from the 1780s to the 1860s 48
11. Part 2: Musicology in Transition to Evolution
12. 4. Cultural Anthropology after Darwin 71
13. 5. From Travel Literature to Academic Writing: Anthropology in the Musical Press from the 1830s to the 1930s 78
14. 6. Non-Western Music in General Music Histories: Progression toward Evolution 95
15. 7. Histories of National Music (1): Henry Chorley and the Anthropological Background 114
16. 8. Histories of National Music (2): Carl Engel and the Influence of Tylor 129
17. 9. Overcoming Spencer: Late-Century Theories of the Origin of Music 145
18. Part 3: Individualism and the Influence of Evolution: Charles Samuel Myers and the Role of Psychology
19. 10. Charles Samuel Myers and the General Movement toward Individualism 159
20. 11. From Individualism to Individual Differences 177
21. 12. The Psychological Writings and the Place of Evolution and Individual Differences 196
22. 13. Myers’s Ethnomusicological Writings 218
23. Part 4: Retaining Cultural Identity: A. H. Fox Strangways and the Problems of Transcription
24. 14. Transcription and the Problems of Translating Musical Culture 249
25. 15. A. H. Fox Strangways and Attitudes Toward Song Translation 261
26. 16. Fox Strangways and The Music of Hindostan 277
27. Epilogue: The “Ethnomusicology” in Long Nineteenth-Century Representations of Non-Western Music 291
28. Works Cited 303
29. Index 333