| Description |
xiv, 457 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
"Chronological checklist of works": p. 361-371. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-432), discography (p. 433-435), and index. |
| Contents |
Part I-Early Years: 1901-1920 -- A Minister's Daughter -- An "American Woman Pianist" -- Part II-Chicago: 1921-1929 -- The "Wonder City" -- New Ways of Knowing -- "Trees of Sound and Color": Music, 1924-1929 -- Part III-New York: 1929-1930 -- One West 68th Street -- "The Curves in our friendship" -- Part IV-Europe: 1930-1931 -- "In Europe one can work!" -- "Dear Superwoman" -- Part V-New York: 1932-1936 -- Homecoming -- "Music as a weapon in the class struggle" -- "A thread unwinding": Music, 1930-1932 -- "Composing babies" -- Part VI-Washington: 1936-1953 -- Discovering "Unmusical" America -- Lomax Country -- The breath of the singer": Transcriptions -- American folk songs go to school -- Dio's Circus -- A fork in the road -- "Keep the song going": Folk-song arrangements -- "Wading in grace" -- Appendix A. - Analysis by Ruth Crawford Seeger of the Third and Fourth Movements of the String Quartet. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. |
| Subject |
Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953.
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Composers -- United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
Composer's search for American music |
| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| Other Form: |
Original 0195137922 9780195137927 (DLC) 95030085 |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb05612 hdl |
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