Making music modern : New York in the 1920s / Carol J. Oja.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oja, Carol J., 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--New York (State)--New York--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Composers--New York (State)--New York.

Composers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (508 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920's. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism in America. She also illustrates how the aesthetic attitudes and institutional structures from the 1920's left a deep imprint on the arts over the 20th century. Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Virgil Thomson, William Grant Still, Edgar Varese, Henry Cowell, Leo Ornstein, Marion

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: The Modern Music Shop; Enter the Moderns; 1 Leo Ornstein: "Wild Man" of the 1910's; 2 Creating a God: The Reception of Edgard Varèse; 3 The Arrival of European Modernism; The Machine in the Concert Hall; 4 Engineers of Art; 5 Ballet Mécanique and International Modernist Networks; Spirituality and American Dissonance; 6 Dane Rudhyar's Vision of Dissonance; 7 The Ecstasy of Carl Ruggles; 8 Henry Cowell's "Throbbing Masses of Sounds"; 9 Ruth Crawford and the Apotheosis of Spiritual Dissonance; Myths and Institutions

10 A Forgotten Vanguard: The Legacy of Marion Bauer, Frederick Jacobi, Emerson Whithorne, and Louis Gruenberg 11 Organizing the Moderns; 12 Women Patrons and Activists; New World Neoclassicism; 13 Neoclassicism: "Orthodox Europeanism" or Empowering Internationalism?; 14 The Transatlantic Gaze of Aaron Copland; 15 Virgil Thomson's "Cocktail of Culture"; 16 A Quartet of New World Neoclassicists; European Modernists and American Critics; 17 Europeans in Performance and on Tour; 18 Visionary Critics ; Widening Horizons; 19 Modernism and the "Jazz Age"

20 Crossing Over with George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman, and the Modernists Epilogue; Selected Discography; Appendix: Programs of Modern-Music Societies in New York, 1920-1931; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780190281625

0190281626

9780195185805

0195185803

9780195363234

019536323X

9780195162578

0195162579

9781280523946

1280523948

9781601297327

1601297327

OCLC:

57247429

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05615 hdl