Ruth Crawford Seeger : a composer's search for American music / Judith Tick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tick, Judith, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953.

Composers--United States--Biography.

Composers.

Local Subjects:

Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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;

Notes:

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

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

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

OCLC:

476022931

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05612 hdl