Ruth Crawford Seeger : a composer's search for American music / Judith Tick.
- Tick, Judith
- Date:
- 2000, ©1997
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- Online
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About this work
Also known as
Composer's search for American music
Publication/Creation
New York : Oxford University Press, 2000, ©1997.
Physical description
xiv, 457 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm
Series
Contents
Part I-Early Years: 1901-1920 -- A Minister's Daughter -- An "American Woman Pianist" -- Part II-Chicago: 1921-1929 -- The "Wonder City" -- New Ways of Knowing -- "Trees of Sound and Color": Music, 1924-1929 -- Part III-New York: 1929-1930 -- One West 68th Street -- "The Curves in our friendship" -- Part IV-Europe: 1930-1931 -- "In Europe one can work!" -- "Dear Superwoman" -- Part V-New York: 1932-1936 -- Homecoming -- "Music as a weapon in the class struggle" -- "A thread unwinding": Music, 1930-1932 -- "Composing babies" -- Part VI-Washington: 1936-1953 -- Discovering "Unmusical" America -- Lomax Country -- The breath of the singer": Transcriptions -- American folk songs go to school -- Dio's Circus -- A fork in the road -- "Keep the song going": Folk-song arrangements -- "Wading in grace" -- Appendix A. - Analysis by Ruth Crawford Seeger of the Third and Fourth Movements of the String Quartet.
Bibliographic information
"Chronological checklist of works": p. 361-371.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-432), discography (p. 433-435), and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.