Aaron Copland and His World / / Judith Tick, Carol J. Oja.

• TeilnehmendeR: Oja, Carol J.,; Tick, Judith,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2005
• Blwyddyn Gyhoeddi: 2018
• Iaith: English
• Cyfres: The Bard Music Festival ; 16
• Disgrifiad Corfforoll: 1 online resource

Aaron Copland and His World reassesses the legacy of one of America's best-loved composers at a pivotal moment--as his life and work shift from the realm of personal memory to that of history. This collection of seventeen essays by distinguished scholars of American music explores the stages of cultural change on which Copland's long life (1900 to 1990) unfolded: from the modernist experiments of the 1920s, through the progressive populism of the Great Depression and the urgencies of World War II, to postwar political backlash and the rise of serialism in the 1950s and the cultural turbulence of the 1960s. Continually responding to an ever-changing political and cultural panorama, Copland kept a firm focus on both his private muse and the public he served. No self-absorbed recluse, he was very much a public figure who devoted his career to building support systems to help composers function productively in America. This book critiques Copland's work in these shifting contexts. The topics include Copland's role in shaping an American school of modern dance; his relationship with Leonard Bernstein; his homosexuality, especially as influenced by the writings of André Gide; and explorations of cultural nationalism. Copland's rich correspondence with the composer and critic Arthur Berger, who helped set the parameters of Copland's reception, is published here in its entirety, edited by Wayne Shirley. The contributors include Emily Abrams, Paul Anderson, Elliott Antokoletz, Leon Botstein, Martin Brody, Elizabeth Crist, Morris Dickstein, Lynn Garafola, Melissa de Graaf, Neil Lerner, Gail Levin, Beth Levy, Vivian Perlis, Howard Pollack, and Larry Starr.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Between Memory and History: An Introduction / Oja, Carol J. / Tick, Judith -- Part I Scanning A Life -- Copland and the Prophetic Voice / Pollack, Howard -- Founding Sons: Copland, Sessions, and Berger on Genealogy and Hybridity / Brody, Martin -- Part II Copland's Greater Cultural World -- "To Become as Human as Possible" / Anderson, Paul -- Copland and American Populism in the 1930S / Dickstein, Morris -- From the New York Avant-Garde to Mexican Modernists: Aaron Copland and the Visual Arts / Levin, Gail -- Making an American Dance / Garafola, Lynn -- Part III Copland's Inner Circle -- Dear Aaron, Dear Lenny: A Friendship in Letters / Perlis, Vivian -- Aaron Copland and Arthur Berger in Correspondence / Shirley, Wayne D. -- Part IV Analytic Perspectives -- War Drums, Tolling Bells, And Copland's Piano Sonata / Starr, Larry -- Copland's Gift to Be Simple Within the Cumulative Mosaic Complexities of His Ballets / Antokoletz, Elliott -- Part V Political Edges -- Copland and the Politics of Americanism / Crist, Elizabeth B. -- From Orient to Occident: Aaron Copland and the Sagas of the Prairie / Levy, Beth E. -- Aaron Copland, Norman Rockwell, and the "Four Freedoms" / Lerner, Neil -- Aaron Copland Meets the Soviet Composers / Abrams, Emily -- Part VI Copland and His Public -- Aaron Copland and the Composers' Forum-Laboratory / Graaf, Melissa De -- Copland on Television: An Annotated List of Interviews and Documentaries / Abrams, Emily -- Part VII Reconfiguring Copland's World -- Copland Reconfigured / Botstein, Leon -- Index -- Notes on the Contributors