ABSTRACT

This collection of essays is the first book-length study of music history and cosmopolitanism, and is informed by arguments that culture and identity do not have to be viewed as primarily located in the context of nationalist narratives. Rather than trying to distinguish between a true cosmopolitanism and a false cosmopolitanism, the book presents studies that deepen understanding of the heritage of this concept – the various ways in which the term has been used to describe a wide range of activity and social outlooks. It ranges over a two hundred-year period, and more than a dozen countries, revealing how musicians and audiences have responded to a common humanity by embracing culture beyond regional or national boundaries. Among the various topics investigated are: musical cosmopolitanism among composers in Latin America, the Ottoman Empire, and Austro-Hungarian Empire; cosmopolitan popular music historiography; cosmopolitan musical entrepreneurs; and musical cosmopolitanism in the metropolises of New York and Shanghai.

part 1|1 pages

Music and cosmopolitanism in the nineteenth century

chapter 1|17 pages

Cosmopolitanism and music for the theatre

Europe and beyond, 1800–1870

chapter 4|15 pages

The cosmopolitan muse

Searching for a musical style in early nineteenth-century Latin America

part 2|1 pages

Music and cosmopolitanism in the twentieth century

chapter 5|13 pages

An ‘intricate fabric of influences and coincidences in the history of popular music’

Reflections on the challenging work of popular music historians

chapter 6|14 pages

Mapping musical modernism

chapter 7|11 pages

André Tchaikowsky (1935–1982)

A cosmopolitan in a closet

chapter 8|14 pages

The elision of difference, newness and participation

Edward J. Dent’s cosmopolitan ethics of opera performance

part 3|1 pages

Music and urban cosmopolitanism

chapter 9|14 pages

Tip, Trinkgeld, bakšiš

Cosmopolitan and other strategies of touring music groups before the Great War in Sarajevo

chapter 10|15 pages

Musicians as cosmopolitan entrepreneurs

Orchestras in Finnish cities before the modern city orchestra institution

chapter 11|13 pages

‘A foreign cosmopolitanism’

Treaty port Shanghai, ad hoc municipal ensembles, and an epistemic modality