Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s
- Author: Oja, Carol J.
Wise, witty and compulsively readable...non-dogmatically postmodern. Eschewing a linear narrative, [Oja] writes short chapters that are narrowly and precisely focused rather than comprehensive.... — More…
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Contents
- An Introduction: The Modern Music Shop
- Enter the Moderns
- 1 Leo Ornstein: Wild Man of the 1910s
- 2 Creating a God: The Reception of Edgar Varese
- 3 The Arrival of European Modernism
- The Machine in the Concert Hall
- 4 Engineers of Art
- 5 Ballet Mecanique and International Modernist Networks
- Spirituality and American Dissonance
- 6 Dane Rudhyar's Vision of Dissonance
- 7 The Ecstasy of Carl Ruggles
- 8 Henry Cowell's Throbbing Masses of Sounds
- 9 Ruth Crawford and the Apotheosis of Spiritual Dissonance
- Myths and Institutions
- 10 A Forgotten Vanguard: The Legacy of Marion Bauer, Louis Gruenberg, Frederick Jacobi, and Emerson Whitmore
- 11 Organizing the Moderns
- 12 Women Patrons and Activists
- New World Neoclassicism
- 13 Neoclassicism: Orthodox Europeanism or Empowering Internationalism?
- 14 The Transatlantic Gaze of Aaron Copland
- 15 Virgil Thomson's Cocktail of Culture
- 16 A Quartet of New World Neoclassicists
- European Modernists and American Critics
- 17 Europeans in Performance and on Tour
- 18 Visionary Critics
- Widening Horizons
- 19 Modernism and The Jazz Age
- 20 Crossing Over with George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman, and the Modernists
- Epilogue
- Selected Discography