Orientalism, Masquerade and Mozart's Turkish Music

Matthew Head explores the cultural meanings of Mozart''s Turkish music in the composer''s 18th-century context, in subsequent discourses of Mozart''s significance for ''Western'' culture, and in today''s (not entirely) post-colonial world. Unpacking the ideological content of Mozart''s numerous representations of Turkey and Turkish music, Head locates the composer''s exoticisms in shifting power ...