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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Ruth Crawford Seeger |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith Tick |
| ISBN: | 0195137922 9780195137927 |
| OCLC Number: | 47926598 |
| Description: | xiv, 457 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I-Early Years: 1901-1920 -- A Minister's Daughter -- An "American Woman Pianist" -- Part II-Chicago: 1921-1929 -- The "Wonder City" -- New Ways of Knowing -- "Trees of Sound and Color": Music, 1924-1929 -- Part III-New York: 1929-1930 -- One West 68th Street -- "The Curves in our friendship" -- "In Europe one can work!" -- "Dear Superwoman" -- Part V-New York: 1932-1936 -- Homecoming -- "Music as a weapon in the class struggle" -- "A thread unwinding": Music, 1930-1932 -- "Composing babies" -- Part VI-Washington: 1936-1953 -- Discovering "Unmusical" America -- Lomax Country -- The breath of the singer": Transcriptions -- American folk songs go to school -- Dio's Circus -- A fork in the road -- "Keep the song going": Folk-song arrangements -- "Wading in grace" -- Appendix A.-Analysis by Ruth Crawford Seeger of the Third and Fourth Movements of the String Quartet. |
| Responsibility: | Judith Tick. |
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Judith Tick's sympathetic and vastly detailed study of her protagonist's works, life and times already reads like a classic. BBC Music Magazine
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