Frontier Figures
American Music and the Mythology of the American West
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Beth Levy has written an elegant work of depth and breadth that gives generous space to the idea of the American West. Her discussions of more than a dozen composers and their works--some usual suspects, others rather unexpected--reveal the 'varied musical...
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"Beth Levy has written an elegant work of depth and breadth that gives generous space to the idea of the American West. Her discussions of more than a dozen composers and their works--some usual suspects, others rather unexpected--reveal the 'varied musical ecosystems of the west.' Levy takes us with her on the trail in prose that is by turns pithy and poetic, but always spot on.--Denise Von Glahn, author of The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape"Big and bold as the terrain it covers, Beth Levy's Frontier Figures takes us on a gratifying road trip, traversing American 'classical' compositions that conjure up landscapes from the Middle West to the shores of the Pacific. En route, we encounter many now-famous composers, such as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, and Virgil Thomson, along with others who have faded from view. Throughout, Levy treats the 'West' as both geographic location and mythologized ideal, demonstrating its power on the American musical imagination."--Carol Oja, author of Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s.
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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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Beth E. Levy
- 468 Seiten, 10 Abbildungen, Maße: 22,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: University of California Press
- ISBN-10: 0520267788
- ISBN-13: 9780520267787
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Beth Levy has written an elegant work of depth and breadth that gives generous space to the idea of the American West. Her discussions of more than a dozen composers and their works - some usual suspects, others rather unexpected - reveal the 'varied musical ecosystems of the west.' Levy takes us with her on the trail in prose that is by turns pithy and poetic, but always spot on." - Denise Von Glahn, author of The Sounds of Place: Music and the American Cultural Landscape
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