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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.
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.
Price: $130.00
Pages: 322
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Publication Date:
01 February 2007
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781580462129
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
MUSIC / History & Criticism, History of music, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Music reviews and criticism, Composers and songwriters, Musicians, singers, bands and groups
Broad intellectual sweep. . . . Raises questions of great importance to folklorists. . . . Fine scholarship and often elegant writing -- a model of verbal clarity and intellectual complexity. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in twentieth-century American music.
Writing the Music of Ruth Crawford into Mainstream Music History - Judith Tick
Ruth Crawford's Precompositional Strategies - Joseph N. Straus
Linear Aggregates and Proportional Design in Ruth Crawford's Piano Study in Mixed Accents - Lyn Burkett
In Pursuit of a Proletarian Music: Ruth Crawford's "Sacco, Vanzetti" - Ellie M. Hisama
The Receptioin of an Ultramodernist: Ruth Crawford in the Composers' Forum - Melissa J. de Graaf
Ruth Crawford's Imprint on Contemporary Composition - Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Reminiscences on Our Singing Country: The Crawford Seeger/ Lomax Alliance - Bess Lomax Hawes
Philosophical Counterpoint: A Comparison of Charles Seeger's Compositioin Treatise and Ruth Crawford Seeger's Folk Song AppendixAppendix - Taylor A. Greer
Composing and Teaching as Dissonant Counterpoint - Roberta Lamb
"Cultural Strategy": The Seegers and B.A. Botkin as Friends and Allies - Jerrold Hirsch
Performing Dio's Legacy: Mike Seeger and the Urban Folk Music Revival - Ray Allen, Book Reviews
Peggy Seeger: From Traditional Folksinger to Contemporary Songwriter - Lydia Hamessley
Ruth Crawford's Precompositional Strategies - Joseph N. Straus
Linear Aggregates and Proportional Design in Ruth Crawford's Piano Study in Mixed Accents - Lyn Burkett
In Pursuit of a Proletarian Music: Ruth Crawford's "Sacco, Vanzetti" - Ellie M. Hisama
The Receptioin of an Ultramodernist: Ruth Crawford in the Composers' Forum - Melissa J. de Graaf
Ruth Crawford's Imprint on Contemporary Composition - Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Reminiscences on Our Singing Country: The Crawford Seeger/ Lomax Alliance - Bess Lomax Hawes
Philosophical Counterpoint: A Comparison of Charles Seeger's Compositioin Treatise and Ruth Crawford Seeger's Folk Song AppendixAppendix - Taylor A. Greer
Composing and Teaching as Dissonant Counterpoint - Roberta Lamb
"Cultural Strategy": The Seegers and B.A. Botkin as Friends and Allies - Jerrold Hirsch
Performing Dio's Legacy: Mike Seeger and the Urban Folk Music Revival - Ray Allen, Book Reviews
Peggy Seeger: From Traditional Folksinger to Contemporary Songwriter - Lydia Hamessley