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Making music modern: New York in the 1920s

Carol J. Oja c2000 © Oxford University Press
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  • 9780195058499 (hardcover)
  • 9780195162578 (paper)
  • 9780195363234 (ebook)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction: The Modern Music Shop (page 3)
  • Enter the Moderns
    • 1 Leo Ornstein: "Wild Man" of the 1910s (page 11)
    • 2 Creating a God: The Reception of Edgard Varèse (page 25)
    • 3 The Arrival of European Modernism (page 45)
  • The Machine in the Concert Hall
    • 4 Engineers of Art (page 59)
    • 5 Ballet Mécanique and International Modernist Networks (page 71)
  • Spirituality and American Dissonance
    • 6 Dane Rudhyar's Vision of Dissonance (page 97)
    • 7 The Ecstasy of Carl Ruggles (page 111)
    • 8 Henry Cowell's "Throbbing Masses of Sounds" (page 127)
    • 9 Ruth Crawford and the Apotheosis of Spiritual Dissonance (page 144)
  • Myths and Institutions
    • 10 A Forgotten Vanguard: The Legacy of Marion Bauer, Frederick Jacobi, Emerson Whithorne, and Louis Gruenberg (page 155)
    • 11 Organizing the Moderns (page 177)
    • 12 Women Patrons and Activists (page 201)
  • New World Neoclassism
    • 13 Neoclassism: "Orthodox Europeanism" or Empowering Internationalism? (page 231)
    • 14 The Transatlantic Gaze of Aaron Copland (page 237)
    • 15 Virgil Thomson's "Cocktail of Culture" (page 252)
    • 16 A Quartet of New World Neoclassicists (page 264)
  • European Modernists and American Critics
    • 17 Europeans in Performance and on Tour (page 285)
    • 18 Visionary Critics (page 297)
  • Widening Horizons
    • 19 Modernism and the "Jazz Age" (page 313)
    • 20 Crossing Over with George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman, and the Modernists (page 318)
  • Epilogue (page 361)
  • Selected Discography (page 365)
  • Appendix: Programs in Modern-Music Societies in New York, 1920-1931 (page 367)
  • Notes (page 407)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 459)
  • Index (page 469)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAMS 56.3 (Fall 2003): 734-740 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jams.2003.56.3.734
MAL 83.4 (Nov. 2002): 646-651 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3526395
BM 136.1097 (Aug. 1994): 576-577 http://www.jstor.org/stable/886263
NOT 59.1 (Sep. 2002): 54-55 http://www.jstor.org/stable/900737
MT 142.1877 (Winter 2001): 62-63 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1004578
MOD 8.3 (Sep. 2001): 550-551 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v008/8.3glahn.html
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