Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds

Ellie M. Hisama is professor of music at Columbia University.

• Writing the Music of Ruth Crawford into Mainstream Music History - Judith TickRuth Crawford's Precompositional Strategies - Joseph N. StrausLinear Aggregates and Proportional Design in Ruth Crawford's Piano Study in Mixed Accents - Lyn BurkettIn Pursuit of a Proletarian Music: Ruth Crawford's "Sacco, Vanzetti" - Ellie M. HisamaThe Receptioin of an Ultramodernist: Ruth Crawford in the Composers' Forum - Melissa J. de GraafRuth Crawford's Imprint on Contemporary Composition - Nancy Yunhwa RaoReminiscences on Our Singing Country: The Crawford Seeger/ Lomax Alliance - Bess Lomax HawesPhilosophical Counterpoint: A Comparison of Charles Seeger's Compositioin Treatise and Ruth Crawford Seeger's Folk Song AppendixAppendix - Taylor A. GreerComposing and Teaching as Dissonant Counterpoint - Roberta Lamb"Cultural Strategy": The Seegers and B.A. Botkin as Friends and Allies - Jerrold HirschPerforming Dio's Legacy: Mike Seeger and the Urban Folk Music Revival - Ray Allen, Book ReviewsPeggy Seeger: From Traditional Folksinger to Contemporary Songwriter - Lydia Hamessley

Broad intellectual sweep. . . . Raises questions of great importance to folklorists. . . . Fine scholarship and often elegant writing -- a model of verbal clarity and intellectual complexity. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in twentieth-century American music.