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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819349903321

Autore

Tick Judith

Titolo

Ruth Crawford Seeger : a composer's search for American music / / Judith Tick [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772896-0

1-4237-6066-2

0-19-535019-7

9786612384110

1-60256-806-5

1-282-38411-2

1-280-53340-4

9786610533404

0-19-802299-9

0-585-38136-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

780/.92

Soggetti

Composers - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p424-432. - Discography: p433-435. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 A Minister's Daughter; 2 An ""American Woman Pianist""; 3 The ""Wonder City""; 4 New Ways of Knowing; 5 ""Trees of Sound and Color"": Music, 1924-1929; 6 ""A Career or Life?""; 7 One West 68th Street; 8 ""The Curves in Our Friendship""; 9 ""In Europe One Can Work!""; 10 ""Dear Superwoman""; 11 Homecoming; 12 ""Music as a Weapon in the Class Struggle""; 13 ""A Thread Unwinding"": Music, 1930-1932; 14 ""Composing Babies""; 15 Discovering ""Unmusical"" America; 16 Lomax Country; 17 ""The Breath of the Singer"": Transcriptions; 18 American Folk Songs Go to School; 19 Dio's Circus

20 A Fork in the Road 21 ""Keep the Song Going"": Folk-Song Arrangements; 22 ""Wading in Grace""; Epilogue; Appendix A. Analysis by Ruth Crawford Seeger of the Third and Fourth Movements of the



String Quartet 1931; Appendix B. Chronological Checklist of Works; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Discography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Seeger was a prominent American avant-garde composer of the 1920s. After her marriage, she became involved in the American folk song movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Caught in domestic life, this creative woman never fully realised her potential.