Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds
Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music
Edited by Ray Allen
Edited by Ellie M. Hisama
Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds offers new perspectives on the life and pioneering musical activities of American composer and folk music activist Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-53). Ruth Crawford developed a unique modernist style with such now-esteemed works as her String Quartet 1931. In 1933, after marrying Charles Seeger, she turned to the work of teaching music to children and of transcribing, arranging, and publishing folk songs.
This collection of studies by musicologists, music theorists, folklorists, historians, music educators, and women's studies scholars reveals how innovation and tradition have intertwined in surprising ways to shape the cultural landscape of twentieth-century America.
CONTRIBUTORS: LYN ELLEN BURKETT, MELISSA J. DE GRAAF, TAYLOR A. GREER, LYDIA HAMESSLEY, BESS LOMAX HAWES, JERROLD HIRSCH, ROBERTA LAMB, CAROL J. OJA, NANCY YUNHWA RAO, JOSEPH N. STRAUS, JUDITH TICK.
Ray Allen (Brooklyn College) is author of Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City.
Ellie M. Hisama (Columbia University) is author of Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon.
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DETAILS
39 line illustrations
336 pages
Size: 9 x 6 in
10 digit ISBN: 158046212X
13 digit ISBN: 9781580462129
Binding: Hardback
First published: 01/Feb/2007
Price: 75.00 USD / 40.00 GBP
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Subject: Music
BIC class: AVH
STATUS: Print on demand (please allow 3 weeks for delivery)
Details updated on 28/08/2008
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Reviews
The level of scholarship is impeccable with solid writing throughout.... The complete picture that this excellent collection on Ruth Crawford provides fills in some gaps and draws together the various aspects of her personality and musical work. Those interested in American musical culture, feminism, modernist composition, or folk music will greatly appreciate its multiple perspectives and sophistication. --Sharon Mirchandani, Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Notes March 2008
This collection does full justice to the breadth of Crawford Seeger's accomplishments. Writers with backgrounds in music theory, education, folklore, history, and women's studies take various viewpoints. . . . There are thorough notes, score samples, a discography and a detailed index. The beautiful jacket, binding and endpapers seem fitting. --WHOLENOTE, Pamela Margles
Well-written, interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading scholars, . . . providing a rich, nuanced understanding of Crawford's life and music. . . . Excellent collection. . . . Those interested in American musical culture, feminism, modernist composition, or folk music will greatly appreciate its multiple perspectives and sophistication. -- MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCATION NOTES [Sharon Mirchandani]
Well-written and insightful. SING OUT!
What a joy to finally be able to read a set of intelligent essays about Ruth Crawford Seeger's pieces, theoretical ideas, and folk music scholarship. It might be said that all scholarship on Ruth Crawford is, by definition, too late. But with this collection we are a bit closer to catching up. -- Larry Polansky, Jacob H. Strauss Professor of Music, Dartmouth College, and editor of Ruth Crawford Seeger's "The Music of American Folk Song" and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music
Allen and Hisama have collected a lively and thoughtful group of essays on Ruth Crawford Seeger that includes contributions from all of the most authoritative voices on her life and work. The collection exemplifies interdisciplinarity at its best, bringing elegant insight to both of her major professional arenas -- modernist composition and folksong collection -- as well as shedding fascinating light on the bridges she built between the two. -- Ruth A. Solie, Sophia Smith Professor of Music, Smith College, and editor of Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship
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