Ruth Crawford Seeger's worlds
Subtitle: innovation and tradition in twentieth-century American music
By: edited by Ray Allen and Ellie M. Hisama
Contributors: Allen, Ray; Hisama, Ellie M
Series: Eastman studies in music
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rochester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781580462129
Subjects: Seeger, Ruth Crawford, -- 1901-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation; Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: "Ruth Crawfard Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in twentieth-Century American Music offers new perspectives on the life and pioneering musical activities of American composer and folk music activist Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-53). The collection is interdisciplinary, with contributions from musicologists, music theorists, folklorists, historians, music educators, and women's studies scholars."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography (p. [289]-292), and index
Table of contents: title: Writing the music of Ruth Crawford into mainstream music history / Judith Tick; title: Ruth Crawford's precompositional strategies / Joseph N. Straus; title: Linear aggregates and proportional design in Ruth Crawford's Piano study in mixed accents / Lyn Ellen Burkett; title: In pursuit of a proletarian music : Ruth Crawford's "Sacco, Vanzetti" / Ellie M. Hisama; title: The reception of an ultramodernist : Ruth Crawford in the composers' forum / Melissa J. de Graaf; title: Ruth Crawford's imprint on contemporary composition / Nancy Yunhwa Rao; title: Reminiscences on Our singing country : the Crawford Seeger/Lomax alliance / Bess Lomax Hawes; title: Philosophical counterpoint : a comparison of Charles Seeger's composition treatise and Ruth Crawford Seeger's folk song appendix / Taylor A. Greer; title: Composing and teaching as dissonant counterpoint / Roberta Lamb; title: "Cultural strategy" : the Seegers and B. A. Botkin as friends and allies / Jerrold Hirsch; title: Performing Dio's legacy : Mike Seeger and the urban folk music revival / Ray Allen; title: Peggy Seeger : from traditional folksinger to contemporary songwriter / Lydia Hamessley