To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation

Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing? In

To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation

Extreme Exoticism explores the role of music in shaping American perceptions of the Japanese, the influence of Japanese music on American composers, and the pla

Since the first reports of travelers returning from visits to the Ottoman and Mughal empires in early modern times, European culture has been obsessed by the fi