Aaron Copland and His World /

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

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...

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Oja, Carol J.,
Tick, Judith,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:The Bard Music Festival ; 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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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

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