New World Symphonies / Arielle Saiber, Stefano Ugo Baldassarri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Jack, 1946-

Contributor:

Baldassarri, Stefano Ugo, Editor.

Saiber, Arielle, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Europe--American influences.

Music.

Music--United States--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking book shows for the first time the profound and transformative influence of American literature, music, and mythology on European music. Although the impact of the European tradition on American composers is widely acknowledged, Jack Sullivan demonstrates that an even more powerful musical current has flowed from the New World to the Old. The spread of rock and roll around the world, the author contends, is only the latest chapter in a cross-cultural story that began in the nineteenth century with Gottschalk in Paris and Dvorák in New York.Sullivan brings popular and canonical culture into his wide-ranging discussion. He explores the effects on European music of American authors as diverse as Twain, DuBois, Melville, and Langston Hughes, examining in particular Dvorák's fascination with Longfellow, the obsession of Debussy and Ravel with Poe, and the inspiration Whitman provided for Holst, Vaughan Williams, and dozens more. Sullivan uncovers the African American musical influence on Europe, beginning with spirituals and culminating in the impact of jazz on Stravinsky, Bartók, Walton, and others. He analyzes the lure of Hollywood and Broadway for such composers as Weill, Korngold, and Britten and considers the power of the American landscape-from the remoteness of the prairie to the brutal energy of the American city. In European music, Sullivan finds, American culture and mythology continue to resonate.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. The Legacy of the Sorrow Songs

CHAPTER TWO. Hiawatha Fever: The Legacy of Longfellow

CHAPTER THREE. New Worlds of Terror: The Legacy of Poe

CHAPTER FOUR. New World Songs: The Legacy of Whitman

CHAPTER FIVE. Beyond the Frontier: New World Landscape

CHAPTER Six. Broadway, Hollywood, and the Accidental Beauties of Silly Songs

CHAPTER SEVEN. New World Rhythm: The Spread of Jazz

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300148572

0300148577

OCLC:

1024039980