Exhibiting the Exotic at the Exhibition: Music and the Evolutionary Sociocultural Continuum at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair

• Main Author: Kendall, David
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: World's Fair; sociocultural evolution; American colonialism; the Philippine Reservation; musical appropriation
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/paha/vol7/iss2/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/paha/article/1239/viewcontent/PAHA_207.2_202_20Article_20__20Kendall.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The World’s Fair had long been a showcase of the progress and enlightenment of the modern Western nation, justified partly through the popularization of the new field of sociology that provided a linear evolutionary model of human sociocultural development. This model was available for illustration...