Ruth Crawford Seeger a composer's sear ch for American music - Tick, Judith; American Council of Learned Societies (New York : Oxford University Press, 2000)
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": Musi c, 1924-1929 -- Part III-New York: 1929-1930 -- One West 68th Street -- "The Curves in our friendship" -- Part IV-Europe: 1930-1931 -- "In Europe one can work!" -- "Dear Superwoman" -- Part V-New Yor k: 1932-1936 -- Homecoming -- "Music as a weapon in the class str uggle" -- "A thread unwinding": Music, 1930-1932 -- "Composing ba bies" -- Part VI-Washington: 1936-1953 -- Discovering "Unmusical" Am erica -- Lomax Country -- The breath of the singer": Transcriptio ns -- American folk songs go to school -- Dio's Circus -- A fo rk 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.
"Chronological checklist of works": p. 361-371.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-432), discography (p. 43 3-435), and index.
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Keywords: Seeger, Ruth Crawford, -- 1901-1953.; Composers -- United States -- Biography