Charles Ives in the mirror
Subtitle: American histories of an iconic composer
By: David C. Paul
Series: Music in American life; Music in American life
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780252037498; 9780252094699
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Appreciation; Musicology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Conservative transcendentalist or modernist firebrand? Ives and his first publics, 1921-1934; title: Songs of our fathers : the advocacy of Henry Cowell and the appeal of the American past, 1927-1947; title: Winning hearts and minds : Ives as Cold War icon, 1947-1965; title: The prison of culture : Ives, American studies, and intellectual history, 1965-1985; title: Musicology makes its mark : Ives and the history of style, 1965-1985; title: Ives at century's turn; title: Postscript. "So what do you think about Ives?"