03362nam 2200781uu 450 991081934990332120200520144314.00-19-772896-01-4237-6066-20-19-535019-797866123841101-60256-806-51-282-38411-21-280-53340-497866105334040-19-802299-90-585-38136-42027/heb05612(CKB)111004366525780(EBL)279546(OCoLC)476022931(SSID)ssj0000240342(PQKBManifestationID)12047779(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000240342(PQKBWorkID)10265183(PQKB)11276926(Au-PeEL)EBL4702160(CaPaEBR)ebr11273442(CaONFJC)MIL238411(OCoLC)65184907(dli)HEB05612(MiU)MIU01000000000000012809458(MiAaPQ)EBC4702160(OCoLC)1406783669(StDuBDS)9780197728963(EXLCZ)9911100436652578019980119e20231997 |y |engurcnu||||||||txtccrRuth Crawford Seeger a composer's search for American music /Judith Tick[electronic resource]New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (488 p.)Oxford scholarship onlineBibliography: p424-432. - Discography: p433-435. - Includes index.Previously issued in print: 1997.0-19-513792-2 0-19-506509-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Circus20 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;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.Oxford scholarship online.ComposersUnited StatesBiographyComposers780/.92Tick Judith951273DLCDLCUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910819349903321Ruth Crawford Seeger2150395UNINA