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Tick followed where Crawford's life has taken her, and has done so brilliantly....Informed by rich resources of letters, diaries, interviews, and domestic manifestos, and enriched by her grasp of the cultural tapestry against which Crawford's life took place, Tick has written an engaging narrative....With this absorbing book, readers may become familiar with a not-so-thoroughly modern composer whose life and work should now take a central place in the continuing debate over the nature of twentieth-century modernism. --Women's Review of Books<br> Elegantly written and richly textured....Essential for all libraries. --Choice<br> Deriving insights from new sources and interviews and providing fresh analyses of many of Seeger's compositions, this lively but scholarly book grapples with its subject's several identities....Recommended to those seriously interested in women's studies, classical and folk music and music education, and American studies. --Library Journal<br> This long-awaited book is more than a biography of a neglected American musician. It is an eloquent and subtle portrait of music and culture in twentieth-century America. It is a beautifully written, exemplary work of scholarship and biography. --Leon Botstein, President, Bard College, and Editor of The Musical Quarterly<br> A wonderful book, which will be an inspiration to women musicians in many countries and languages. It will be of interest to many--not just women, and not just musicians or teachers or collectors of folk music. --Pete Seeger<br>

<br> Tick followed where Crawford's life has taken her, and has done so brilliantly....Informed by rich resources of letters, diaries, interviews, and domestic manifestos, and enriched by her grasp of the cultural tapestry against which Crawford's life took place, Tick has written an engaging narrative....With this absorbing book, readers may become familiar with a not-so-thoroughly modern composer whose life and work should now take a central place in the continuing debate over the nature of twentieth-century modernism. --Women's Review of Books<br> Elegantly written and richly textured....Essential for all libraries. --Choice<br> Deriving insights from new sources and interviews and providing fresh analyses of many of Seeger's compositions, this lively but scholarly book grapples with its subject's several identities....Recommended to those seriously interested in women's studies, classical and folk music and music education, and American studies. --Library Journal<br> This long-awai

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Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University.

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