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^ Read ^ Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music by Judith Tick ½ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music Radicalized by the Depression, she spent much of the ensuing two decades working aggressively for social change with her husband and stepson, the folksinger Pete Seeger.This engrossing new biography emphasizes the choices Crawford Seeger made in her roles as composer, activist, teacher, wife and mother. Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female composer in this century. It was only at the very end of her life, with cancer sapping her strength,
| Title | : | Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music |
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195065093 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 488 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
Radicalized by the Depression, she spent much of the ensuing two decades working aggressively for social change with her husband and stepson, the folksinger Pete Seeger.This engrossing new biography emphasizes the choices Crawford Seeger made in her roles as composer, activist, teacher, wife and mother. Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female composer in this century. It was only at the very end of her life, with cancer sapping her strength, that she returned to composing. But her legacy extends far beyond the cutting edge of modern music. Joining Aaron Copland and Henry Cowell as a key member of the 1920s musical avant-garde, she went on to study with modernist theorist and future husband Charles Seeger, writing her masterpiece, String Quartet 1931, not long after. Collaborating with poet Carl Sandburg on folk song arrangements in the twenties, and with the famous folk-song collectors John and Alan Lomax in the 1930s, she emerged as a central figure in the American folk music
Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University.
Rachel Abbinanti (tusai1@aol.com) said a musical revolutionary from many perspectives. Judith Tick does an indispensable service here in writing the first full-length biography of Ruth Crawford Seeger. And it is a damn shame that Seeger was takened in 1951 an early age for someone with a consummate gift for composition. Tick traverses her entire life down
. Recommended for those seriously interested in women's studies, classical and folk music and music education, and American studies.?Bonnie Jo Dopp, Univ. Examining her roles as classically trained modernist composer, wife-mother-homemaker, folklorist, and music educator, Tick (American Women Composers Before 1870, Univ. From Library Journal Long-awaited in some musical circles, this admiring biography of one member of an influential American family of musicians is deeper, broader, and more theoretically conceived than Matilda Gaume's Ruth Crawford Seeger: Memoirs,
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