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  • ORIENTALISM, MASQUERADE AND MOZART'S TURKISH MUSIC
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    ORIENTALISM, MASQUERADE AND MOZART'S TURKISH MUSIC
    MATTHEW HEAD
    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 shi...

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  • MURDER AT THE FLEA CLUB
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    MURDER AT THE FLEA CLUB
    MATTHEW HEAD
    A medical missionary in post-WWII Paris is out to solve the murder of a nightclub singer in this 1955 mystery by the author of The Devil in the Bush.   Paris at the height of its post-War chic is a far cry from the African backwaters that Hoop Taliaferro has been calling home. But with his American charm and American dollars, he fits in anywhere. He especially fits in at the Fl...

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  • THE CONGO VENUS
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    THE CONGO VENUS
    MATTHEW HEAD
    When a Belgian beauty dies in the Congo, "sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued Dr. Mary Finney" is on the case in this "witty, well-written" mystery from 1950 ( The New York Times). It doesn't take a lot to be the belle of the expat community in Leopoldville, a tiny outpost in the Belgian Congo. A pulse and a pair of pumps will do the trick. Liliane Morelli brought more than that to the p...

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  • THE DEVIL IN THE BUSH
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    THE DEVIL IN THE BUSH
    MATTHEW HEAD
    A missionary doctor is on the hunt for a killer in the Belgian Congo in this 1945 mystery series debut exploring WWII-era Colonial Africa. World War II is raging, but in this dusty backwater of the Belgian Congo, the biggest problem is finding a cold beer. That's the case, at least, for Hooper Taliaferro, a U.S. government gofer sent to Africa on a vague errand related to the w...

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  • THE CABINDA AFFAIR
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    THE CABINDA AFFAIR
    MATTHEW HEAD
    The author of The Devil in the Bush returns to Colonial Africa in a mystery that is "at once an absorbing whodunit and a distinguished novel of atmosphere" ( The New York Times). World War II is over but US gofer Hooper Taliaferro is still in Africa, typing up Uncle Sam's loose ends. The latest end is in Cabinda, a tiny Portuguese colony with gaily painted buildings and a histo...

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