Making music modern : New York in the 1920s / Carol J. Oja.

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Main Author: Oja, Carol J., 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Modern Music Shop
  • Enter the Moderns
  • Leo Ornstein: "Wild Man" of the 1910s
  • Creating a God: The Reception of Edgard Varese
  • The Arrival of European Modernism
  • The Machine in the Concert Hall
  • Engineers of Art
  • Ballet Mecanique and International Modernist Networks
  • Spirituality and American Dissonance
  • Dane Rudhyar's Vision of Dissonance
  • The Ecstasy of Carl Ruggles
  • Henry Cowell's "Throbbing Masses of Sounds"
  • Ruth Crawford and the Apotheosis of Spiritual Dissonance
  • Myths and Institutions
  • A Forgotten Vanguard: The Legacy of Marion Bauer, Frederick Jacobi, Emerson Whithorne, and Louis Gruenberg
  • Organizing the Moderns
  • Women Patrons and Activists
  • New World Neoclassicism
  • Neoclassicism: "Orthodox Europeanism" or Empowering Internationalism?
  • The fransatlantic Gaze of Aaron Copland
  • Virgil Thomson's "Cocktail of Culture"
  • A Quartet of New World Neoclassicists
  • European Modernists and American Critics
  • Europeans in Performance and on Tour
  • Visionary Critics
  • Widening Horizons
  • Modernism and the "Jazz Age"
  • Crossing Over with George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman, and the Modernists
  • Programs of Modern-Music Societies in New York, 1920-1931.