Yes, we know.
How obnoxious.
By "misreading" above, btw, I meant (in conjunction with the nod the more negative connotations of the term "excotica") something like iirc Harold Bloom might have meant, also something like cross-pollination and mutation the way jazz has always done since before it was 'jazz'. [
EDIT: I'm just trying to re-emphasize the felicity of ~Western appropriations and narcissism...exciting distortions and accidents etc. Otherwise the requisite hesitations just sound like the policing anthropology beached itself on for quite a while; still, perhaps.]
Anyway, I hope Kyjo and others will keep this thread going.
OT, several years ago I read a book that didn't focus on music (literature is his real subject though the scope of the book is rather wider than that), but seems relevant. For whatever it's worth; I'm sure there are wheelbarrow fulls of stuff on this subject even just in musicology. The Kontje book was my glancing blow, and it was interesting. (
EDIT: In addition to the famous Edward Said books, which I'm pretty sure almost everybody gets to first of all.)
Todd Kontje: GERMAN ORIENTALISMS (Univ Michigan, 2004)
Any genealogy of how any idea or place or tradition becomes the "middle/center" of anything is probably relevant to my own anxieties about what survives and what I spend time with.
