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Frontier Figures

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-520-26778-7
Verlag: University Of California Press
Erscheinungstermin: 30.06.2012
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Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780520267787
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-520-26778-7
  • Verlag: University Of California Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 30.06.2012
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2012
  • Serie: California Studies in 20th-Century Music
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
  • Gewicht: 644 g
  • Seiten: 470
  • Format (B x H x T): 154 x 228 x 34 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Course of Empire

Chapter 1. The Wa-Wan and the West

Chapter 2. Western Democracy, Western Landscapes, Western Music

Part Two. Western Encounters: Charles Wakefield Cadman and Others
Chapter 3. Encountering Indians

Chapter 4. Staging the West

Part Three. American Pastorals
Chapter 5. West of Eden

Chapter 6. Power in the Land

Chapter 7. Harvest Home

Part Four. Roy Harris: Provincial Cowboy, White Hope
Chapter 8. How Roy Harris Became Western

Chapter 9. Manifest Destiny

Chapter 10. The Composer as Folk Singer

Part Five. Aaron Copland: From Orient to Occident
Chapter 11. The Saga of the Prairies

Chapter 12. Communal Song, Cosmopolitan Song

Chapter 13. Copland and the Cinematic West

Conclusion: On the Trail

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index