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Author:   Richard Kostelanetz ,  Steve Silverstein
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9780415939409

ISBN 10:   0415939402
Pages:   406
Publication Date:   28 October 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part One: The Life of Music, A Note on Young Composers, Music Between the Wars, American Music Since 1930, Influence of Jazz on Modern Music, Opera and Drama, Music in the Movies, Music and Theater, the Composer and Conductor, ASCAP and the Symphonic Composer, A Tribute to Nadia Boulanger; Part Two: Composers and Performers, The Ives case, The Younger Generation of American Composers 1926 - 1959, George Antheil, Leonard Bernstein, In Memory of Mark Blitzstein, Stephan Wolpe, Rosza and Hermann; Part Three: Guggenheim Recommendations, Essays written in support of Guggenheim applicants in music; Part Four: His Own Works, Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, Compositional Phases, Composing for Something Wild, Jazz and Folk Influences 1947-63, Oedipus Rex, Piano Fantasy; Part Five: His Journals and Diaries, From a Composer's Notebook, From a Composer's Journal, Previously Unpublished Diaries

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These aren't just two superb source books about cornerstone figures in American music, they are, themselves, indelible contributions to the very idea of American culture and how it got that way. -- Buffalo News

These aren't just two superb source books about cornerstone figures in American music, they are, themselves, indelible contributions to the very idea of American culture and how it got that way.. <br>-Buffalo News, March 2004 <br>

"""These aren't just two superb source books about cornerstone figures in American music, they are, themselves, indelible contributions to the very idea of American culture and how it got that way."" -- Buffalo News"

These aren't just two superb source books about cornerstone figures in American music, they are, themselves, indelible contributions to the very idea of American culture and how it got that way.. -Buffalo News, March 2004

These aren't just two superb source books about cornerstone figures in American music, they are, themselves, indelible contributions to the very idea of American culture and how it got that way.. -Buffalo News, March 2004

Author Information

Richard Kostelanetz has edited over 40 collections of essays on American culture, ranging in subject matter from avant-garde fiction to collections of critical writings on John Cage and Frank Zappa. He is also a published critic, writer, and artist.

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