Bennett Zon: 3 books
by Bennett Zon
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This engaging book explores the dynamic relationship between evolutionary science and musical culture in Victorian Britain, drawing upon a wealth of popular scientific and musical literature to contextualize evolutionary theories of the Darwinian and non-Darwinian revolutions. Bennett Zon uses musical...
by Bennett Zon
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
�In a word, I shall endeavour to show how our music, having been originally a shell-fish, with its restrictive skeleton on the outside and no soul within, has been developed by the inevitable laws of evolution, through natural selection and the survival of the fittest, into something human, even...
Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s
Portrayal of the East
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
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 century. The book is in four themed sections....