Resonances of the Raj - India in the English Musical Imagination, 1897-1947 - Grand Format

"Nalini Ghuman explores a wide and representative variety of topics to shed light on the vital but neglected musical and cultural traffic between Britain and its Indian empire. Especially illuminating is her discussion of music previously marginalized or forgotten, some of the highest complexity, some frankly popular but no less deserving of re-evaluation and understanding," "With six musical case studies, Nalini Ghuman's historically evocative and critically astute book presents a compelling new perspective on British modernism.
Focused on mutual influences between Indian and English music, she examines the impact of wax cylinder recordings, imperial exhibition performances, or the London lectures of ethnographer/composer Maud MacCarthy on composers like Elgar and Holst, and of a British education on Sorabji. In challenging how musical Englishness has long been defined, this is a new music history at its most exciting."