Kaikhosru Sorabji's letters to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock)
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 878
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781351068802
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138478435
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/24996/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This book is the first and only complete published edition of the correspondence undertaken from 1913 until 1929 between Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988) and Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) (1894-1930). It also presents a curated selection of contemporaneous contextual materials, some hard-to-find and some published for the first time. The Introduction offers a new conceptual framework for interpreting the primary texts and related secondary literature.
Its insights relate to:
1. Sorabji’s perception of his own racial, religious and sexual identity
2. Vignettes of personalia of the time, cultural context and material environment
3. Sources of Sorabji’s compositional style, and its relationship with both modernism and non-Western music
4. The relationship between Sorabji and Heseltine, and their contribution to the radical criticism of the inter-war period.
While a public figure particularly in the 1920s and 30s, Sorabji has long been marginalised. In part this is due to the racist attitudes of his times, and the way they have been perpetuated. In the last few decades there has been increased interest in the music and perspectives of Sorabji and other marginalised figures from early 20th-century Britain. More recently, attention has focussed on the need for a more ethnically diverse range of composer exemplars in the Western classical tradition, and in this context the Anglo-Parsi Sorabji emerges as a figure of essential importance.
Alongside writing the introduction the process entailed: the transcription of letters from handwritten manuscript; drafting of footnote annotations; editing of typescript and annotations, with reference to source and other manuscripts, and other primary and secondary sources; and the finalisation of additional material (republished contemporaneous documents) in Appendices.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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