American composer
arranging
Bess Lomax Hawes
Carol J. Oja
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Ellie M. Hisama
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folk music activist
innovation
Jerrold Hirsch
Joseph N. Straus
Judith Tick
Lydia Hamessley
Lyn Ellen Burkett
Melissa J. De Graaf
modernist style
Nancy Yunhwa Rao
publishing folk songs
Ray Allen
Roberta Lamb
Ruth Crawford Seeger
String Quartet 1931
Taylor A. Greer
teaching music to children
tradition
transcribing
twentieth-century America
Product details
- ISBN 9781580462129
- Weight: 658g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Interdisciplinary perspectives on the life and work of the esteemed "ultra-modern" American composer and pioneering folk music activist, Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953).
Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds offers new perspectives on the life and pioneering musical activities of American composer and folk music activist Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953). Ruth Crawford developed a unique modernist style with such now-esteemed works as her String Quartet 1931. In 1933, after marrying Charles Seeger, she turned to the work of teaching music to children and of transcribing, arranging, and publishing folk songs.
Thiscollection of studies by musicologists, music theorists, folklorists, historians, music educators, and women's studies scholars reveals how innovation and tradition have intertwined in surprising ways to shape the cultural landscape of twentieth-century America.
Contributors: Lyn Ellen Burkett, Melissa J. De Graaf, Taylor A. Greer, Lydia Hamessley, Bess Lomax Hawes, Jerrold Hirsch, Roberta Lamb, Carol J. Oja, Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Joseph N. Straus,Judith Tick.
Ray Allen (Brooklyn College) is author of Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City.
Ellie M. Hisama (Columbia University) is author of Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon.
Ellie M. Hisama is professor of music at Columbia University.
