Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds - 9781580462129

Ruth Crawford Seeger's WorldsInnovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music\nAuthor(s): Ray Allen, Ellie M. Hisama, Bess Lomax Hawes, David Tick, Ellie M. Hisama, Jerrold Hirsch, Joseph N. Straus, Lydia Hamessley, Lyn Burkett, Melissa J. de Graaf\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: University of Rochester Press\nISBN-13: 9781580462129, 978-1580462129\nSynopsis\nInterdisciplinary perspectives on the life and work of the esteemed \""ultra-modern\"" American composer and pioneering folk music activist, Ruth Crawford Seeger [tel].\n\nRuth Crawford Seeger's Worlds offers new perspectives on the life and pioneering musical activities of American composer and folk music activist Ruth Crawford Seeger [tel]. 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, an.