Music for the Common Man : Aaron Copland during the Depression and War: Aaron Copland during the Depression and WarOxford University Press, USA, 27 Okt 2005 - 272 halaman In the 1930s, Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he described as "imposed simplicity." Works like El Salon Mexico, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring feature a tuneful idiom that brought the composer unprecedented popular success and came to define an American sound. Yet the cultural substance of that sound--the social and political perspective that might be heard within these familiar pieces--has until now been largely overlooked. While it has long been acknowledged that Copland subscribed to leftwing ideals, Music for the Common Man is the first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best-known music in the context of leftwing social, political, and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War. Musicologist Elizabeth Crist argues that Copland's politics never merely accorded with mainstream New Deal liberalism, wartime patriotism, and Communist Party aesthetic policy, but advanced a progressive vision of American society and culture. Copland's music can be heard to accord with the political tenets of progressivism in the 1930s and '40s, including a fundamental sensitivity toward those less fortunate, support of multiethnic pluralism, belief in social democracy, and faith that America's past could be put in service of a better future. Crist explores how his works wrestle with the political complexities and cultural contradictions of the era by investing symbols of America--the West, folk song, patriotism, or the people--with progressive social ideals. Much as been written on the relationship between politics and art in the 1930s and '40s, but very little on concert music of the era. Music for the Common Man offers fresh insights on familiar pieces and the political context in which they emerged. |
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... find it difficult to separate the two, so fortunate am I to have had a host of supportive faculty, institutions, colleagues, and friends. First and foremost, I am grateful to a long list of extraordinary teachers, including Daniel R ...
... find it difficult to separate the two, so fortunate am I to have had a host of supportive faculty, institutions, colleagues, and friends. First and foremost, I am grateful to a long list of extraordinary teachers, including Daniel R ...
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... find new styles and techniques to distance contemporary composition from the music of the romantic past, but to find new audiences and modes of expression best suited to the modern present. Copland concluded that contemporary music ...
... find new styles and techniques to distance contemporary composition from the music of the romantic past, but to find new audiences and modes of expression best suited to the modern present. Copland concluded that contemporary music ...
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... find most objectionable about the reception of his remarks (and of his music) was the implication that his accessible works were somehow less serious than his more abstract compositions. “For the sake of drawing sharp distinctions you ...
... find most objectionable about the reception of his remarks (and of his music) was the implication that his accessible works were somehow less serious than his more abstract compositions. “For the sake of drawing sharp distinctions you ...
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... find their way into the concert hall. In interpreting Copland as a composer on the cultural front, I do not aver that the political and aesthetic were or are the same. To identify the composer's avowed political beliefs or assess how ...
... find their way into the concert hall. In interpreting Copland as a composer on the cultural front, I do not aver that the political and aesthetic were or are the same. To identify the composer's avowed political beliefs or assess how ...
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... find expression in a piece of music. The first of these— overt political engagement—is termed cultural politics. As Denning explains, cultural politics is “simply the politics of letterheads and petitions, the stances taken by artists ...
... find expression in a piece of music. The first of these— overt political engagement—is termed cultural politics. As Denning explains, cultural politics is “simply the politics of letterheads and petitions, the stances taken by artists ...
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