7 Reminiscences on Our Singing Country: The Crawford Seeger/Lomax Alliance

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Writing the Music of Ruth Crawford into Mainstream Music History 11
6. 2 Ruth Crawford’s Precompositional Strategies 33
7. 3 Linear Aggregates and Proportional Design in Ruth Crawford’s Piano Study in Mixed Accents 57
8. 4 In Pursuit of a Proletarian Music: Ruth Crawford’s “Sacco, Vanzetti” 73
9. 5 The Reception of an Ultramodernist: Ruth Crawford in the Composers’ Forum 94
10. 6 Ruth Crawford’s Imprint on Contemporary Composition 110
11. 7 Reminiscences on Our Singing Country: The Crawford Seeger/Lomax Alliance 148
12. 8 Philosophical Counterpoint: A Comparison of Charles Seeger’s Composition Treatise and Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Folk Song Appendix 153
13. 9 Composing and Teaching as Dissonant Counterpoint 169
14. 10 “Cultural Strategy”: The Seegers and B. A. Botkin as Friends and Allies 196
15. 11 Performing Dio’s Legacy: Mike Seeger and the Urban Folk Music Revival 224
16. 12 Peggy Seeger: From Traditional Folksinger to Contemporary Songwriter 252
17. Selected Discography 289
18. List of Contributors 293
19. Index 297