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Frontier Figures American Music and the Mythology of the American West 1st Edition by Beth Levy 9780520267763 0520267761

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Author(s): Beth E. Levy
ISBN(s): 9780520267763, 0520267761
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 38.19 MB
Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0520267761

ISBN 13: 9780520267763

Author: Beth E. Levy 

Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.

Table of contents:

Part 1: Introduction: The Course of Empire

Chapter 1. The Wa-Wan and the West

Chapter 2. Western Democracy, Western Landscapes, Western Music

Part Two. Western Encounters: Charles Wakefield Cadman and Others

Chapter 3. Encountering Indians

Chapter 4. Staging the West

Part Three. American Pastorals

Chapter 5. West of Eden

Chapter 6. Power in the Land

Chapter 7. Harvest Home

Part Four. Roy Harris: Provincial Cowboy, White Hope

Chapter 8. How Roy Harris Became Western

Chapter 9. Manifest Destiny

Chapter 10. The Composer as Folk Singer

Part Five. Aaron Copland: From Orient to Occident

Chapter 11. The Saga of the Prairies

Chapter 12. Communal Song, Cosmopolitan Song

Chapter 13. Copland and the Cinematic West

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