Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Writing the Music of Ruth Crawford into Mainstream Music History
- 2 Ruth Crawford’s Precompositional Strategies
- 3 Linear Aggregates and Proportional Design in Ruth Crawford’s Piano Study in Mixed Accents
- 4 In Pursuit of a Proletarian Music: Ruth Crawford’s “Sacco, Vanzetti”
- 5 The Reception of an Ultramodernist: Ruth Crawford in the Composers’ Forum
- 6 Ruth Crawford’s Imprint on Contemporary Composition
- 7 Reminiscences on Our Singing Country: The Crawford Seeger/Lomax Alliance
- 8 Philosophical Counterpoint: A Comparison of Charles Seeger’s Composition Treatise and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Folk Song Appendix
- 9 Composing and Teaching as Dissonant Counterpoint
- 10 “Cultural Strategy”: The Seegers and B. A. Botkin as Friends and Allies
- 11 Performing Dio’s Legacy: Mike Seeger and the Urban Folk Music Revival
- 12 Peggy Seeger: From Traditional Folksinger to Contemporary Songwriter
- Selected Discography
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Eastman Studies in Music
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Writing the Music of Ruth Crawford into Mainstream Music History
- 2 Ruth Crawford’s Precompositional Strategies
- 3 Linear Aggregates and Proportional Design in Ruth Crawford’s Piano Study in Mixed Accents
- 4 In Pursuit of a Proletarian Music: Ruth Crawford’s “Sacco, Vanzetti”
- 5 The Reception of an Ultramodernist: Ruth Crawford in the Composers’ Forum
- 6 Ruth Crawford’s Imprint on Contemporary Composition
- 7 Reminiscences on Our Singing Country: The Crawford Seeger/Lomax Alliance
- 8 Philosophical Counterpoint: A Comparison of Charles Seeger’s Composition Treatise and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Folk Song Appendix
- 9 Composing and Teaching as Dissonant Counterpoint
- 10 “Cultural Strategy”: The Seegers and B. A. Botkin as Friends and Allies
- 11 Performing Dio’s Legacy: Mike Seeger and the Urban Folk Music Revival
- 12 Peggy Seeger: From Traditional Folksinger to Contemporary Songwriter
- Selected Discography
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Eastman Studies in Music
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
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- Ruth Crawford Seeger's WorldsInnovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007