Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music

Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music
ISBN-10
0195137922
ISBN-13
9780195137927
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
457
Language
English
Published
2000-02-10
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Judith Tick

Description

This engrossing new biography emphasizes the choices Crawford Seeger made in her roles as composer, activist, teacher, wife and mother. The first woman to win a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in music composition, Crawford Seeger nearly gave up writing music as the demands of family, politics, and the folk song movement intervened. It was only at the very end of her life, with cancer sapping her strength, that she returned to composing.

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