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Ruth Crawford Seeger: a composer's search for American music

Judith Tick
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  • PART I EARLY YEARS: 1901-1920
    • 1 A Minister's Daughter (page 3)
    • 2 An "American Woman Pianist" (page 15)
  • PART II CHICAGO: 1921-1929
    • 3 The "Wonder City" (page 27)
    • 4 New Ways of Knowing (page 44)
    • 5 "Trees of Sound and Color": Music, 1924-1929 (page 65)
    • 6 "A Career or Life?" (page 85)
  • PART III NEW YORK: 1929-1930
    • 7 One West 68th Street (page 105)
    • 8 "The Curves in Our Friendship" (page 129)
  • PART IV: EUROPE: 1930-1931
    • 9 "In Europe One Can Work!" (page 141)
    • 10 "Dear Superwoman" (page 165)
  • PART V NEW YORK: 1932-1936
    • 11 Homecoming (page 179)
    • 12 "Music as a Weapon in the Class Struggle" (page 188)
    • 13 "A Thread Unwinding": Music, 1930-1932 (page 201)
    • 14 "Composing Babies" (page 225)
  • PART VI WASHINGTON: 1936-1953
    • 15 Discovering "Unmusical" America (page 233)
    • 16 Lomax County (page 247)
    • 17 "The Breath of the Singer": Transcriptions (page 268)
    • 18 American Folk Songs Go to School (page 280)
    • 19 Dio's Circus (page 291)
    • 20 A Fork in the Road (page 310)
    • 21 "Keep the Song Going": Folk-Song Arrangements (page 330)
    • 22 "Wading in Grace" (page 341)
  • Epilogue (page 353)
  • Appendix A. Analysis by Ruth Crawford Seeger of the Third and Fourth Movements of the String Quartet 1931 (page 357)
  • Appendix B. Chronological Checklist of Works (page 361)
  • Notes (page 372)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 424)
  • Discography (page 433)
  • Index (page 437)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ETMU 43.1 (Winter 1999): 171-174 http://www.jstor.org/stable/852702
JAMS 52.2 (Summer 1999): 383-388 http://www.jstor.org/stable/832003
CMS 38 (1998): 152-154 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40374327
NOT 55.2 (Dec. 1998): 369-371 http://www.jstor.org/stable/900179
JAH 85.3 (Dec. 1998): 1132-1133 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2567328
WRB 15.7 (Apr. 1998): 19-20 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4022929
MAL 79.4 (Nov. 1998): 637-638 http://www.jstor.org/stable/854653
SIG 26.1 (Autumn 2000): 324-328 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3175407
NWSA 13.2 (Summer 2001): 161-166 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4316822
AmQ 50.4 (Dec. 1998): 849-859 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30042172
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Published: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780195065091 (hardcover)
  • 9780195137927 (paper)
  • 9780195350197 (ebook)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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