Frontier Figures : American Music and the Mythology of the American West / Beth E. Levy.

By:

Levy, Beth E. (Beth Ellen), 1972- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: California studies in 20th-century music ; 14.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (471 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520952027
0520952022
1280116560
9781280116568
9780520267787
0520267788
9786613520852
6613520853

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Frontier figures.DDC classification:

781.5/9 781.59

LOC classification:

ML200.5

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Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Course of Empire; Part One: Arthur Farwell's West; 1. The Wa-Wan and the West; 2. Western Democracy, Western Landscapes, Western Music; Part Two: Western Encounters: Charles Wakefield Cadman and Others; 3. Encountering Indians; 4. Staging the West; Part Three: American Pastorals; 5. West of Eden; 6. Power in the Land; 7. Harvest Home; Part Four: Roy Harris: Provincial Cowboy, White Hope; 8. How Roy Harris Became Western; 9. Manifest Destiny.

10. The Composer as Folk SingerPart Five: Aaron Copland: From Orient to Occident; 11. The Saga of the Prairies; 12. Communal Song, Cosmopolitan Song; 13. Copland and the Cinematic West; Conclusion: On the Trail; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

Summary: 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.

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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.