Frontier Figures
Composers have been as invested as anyone in the myths of the American West. Levy looks at how American composers seized upon the West as a cornerstone on which to build a uniquely American identity. Levy looks at composers such as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, and Arthur Farwell - city born and bred, educated in Europe, with little personal experience of life on the range, yet deeply invested in exploring how music could embody the sounds of the west. Levys work combines analysis of the music (what was the West supposed to sound like?) with investigations of what these composers knew (or thought they knew) of actual Indian music, the real life of farmers and cowboys, and the history of western expansion. She ranges from Mexican music at the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893, Dvorak composing symphonies in Iowa, Frederick Jackson Turners frontier thesis, the music of Buffalo Bills Wild West shows and Hollywood westerns, Agnes DeMilles "cowboy ballets," and what the American West means to composers living more than a century after the close of the frontier.
| Autor: | Levy, Beth E. |
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| EAN: | 9780520267787 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 468 |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | University of California Press |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 15.06.2012 |
| Untertitel: | American Music and the Mythology of the American West |
| Schlagworte: | USA, Musik |
| Größe: | 28 × 229 |
| Gewicht: | 702 g |
