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Is Aida an orientalist opera?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2008

Paul Robinson
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Among the more remarkable events of recent intellectual history is that Edward Said, famous avant-garde literary critic, passionate advocate for the Palestinian cause, has begun to write about music. Moreover, not just about any kind of music, but about classical music in the élite (and canonical) European tradition – the symphonies of Beethoven, the operas of Wagner, the chamber music of Schubert and Brahms. Several years ago Said took over the music column in The Nation magazine, and more recently he has published a book, Musical Elaborations, based on a series of invited lectures at the University of California at Irvine.

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Research Article
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Cambridge Opera Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , July 1993 , pp. 133 - 140
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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This essay was first presented in October 1992 at a conference at Syracuse University entitled ‘Designing Italy: “Italy” in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas’. The proceedings of the conference are to be published in a volume edited by Beverly Allen, Ayele Bekerie and Mary Russo.

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