Non-Western national music and empire in global history: interactions, uniformities, and comparisons

摘要: Inspired by C. A. Bayly’s notion of global uniformities, this article investigates the different ways in which elitist non-Western music reformers, often with state support, canonized and institutionalized modern national traditions during age liberalism empire. As these reformers reinterpreted liberal earlier Enlightenment ideas, they envisaged their own musics hierarchically comparison Western music. In context comparative musicological thinking, became particularly preoccupied systematization scales, equal temperament tuning, origins process, incorporated claims about authenticity spirituality to give strength burgeoning national, if not anti-imperial, identities. However, beneath appearance formal similarity mutual translatability musics, significant sonic cultural differences remained. a contribution history scholarship, principally attempts establish parallels comparisons.