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Crawford Seeger : A Composer's Search for American Music
by Judith Tick
Ruth Crawford
Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant
American female composer in the twentieth century. With Aaron
Copland and Henry Cowell she was a key member of the 1920s musical
avant-garde, and she was the first woman to win a Guggenheim Foundation
Fellowship in music composition. But her legacy extends far beyond
the cutting edge of modern music. Collaborating with poet Carl
Sandburg on folk song arrangements in the twenties, and with the
famous folk-song collectors John and Alan Lomax in the 1930s,
she emerged as a central figure in the American folk music revival.
In addition, she became an energetic proponent of social change
in the 1930s and devoted much of her last decades to progressive
causes. This engrossing new biography emphasizes the choices Crawford
Seeger made in her roles as composer, activist, teacher, wife
and mother. (Amazon.com)
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