Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West
- Author: Levy, Beth E.
Levy offers an amazing amount of scholarship. She has researched nearly every person and event of this period... Highly recommended —
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Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments Abbreviations
- Introduction The Course of Empire
- Chapter 1 . The Wa-Wan and the West
- Chapter 2 . Western Democracy, Western Landscapes, Western Music Part Two. Western Encounters: Charles Wakefield Cadman and Others
- Chapter 3 . Encountering Indians
- Chapter 4 . Staging the West Part Three. American Pastorals
- Chapter 5 . West of Eden
- Chapter 6 . Power in the Land
- Chapter 7 . Harvest Home Part Four. Roy Harris: Provincial Cowboy, White Hope
- Chapter 8 . How Roy Harris Became Western
- Chapter 9 . Manifest Destiny
- Chapter 10 . The Composer as Folk Singer Part Five. Aaron Copland: From Orient to Occident
- Chapter 11 . The Saga of the Prairies
- Chapter 12 . Communal Song, Cosmopolitan Song
- Chapter 13 . Copland and the Cinematic West
- Conclusion On the Trail Notes Selected
- Bibliography
- Index