Mario Luiz Zuolo; Daniel Kherlakian; José Eduardo de Mello; Maria Cristina Coelho de Carvalho; Mari Ranazzi Cabral Fagundes Quintessenz Verlags-GmbH (2017) Saatavuus: Hankintapalvelu Kovakantinen kirja
Jordi Ferrer Beltrán; María Cristina Redondo Natella; Pablo Eugenio Navarro López; Jorge Luis Rodríguez; Giovanni Bat Ratti Marcial Pons, Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales (2022) Saatavuus: Hankintapalvelu Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Cristina de la Escosura Balbás; Elena Duce Pastor; María del Mar Rodríguez Alcocer; Patricia González Gutiérrez; Serrano Loz British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd (2020) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Maria Cristina Garcia; Maddalena Marinari; Elliott Young; Monique Laney; Yael Schacher MO - University of Illinois Press (2023) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Maria Cristina Garcia; Maddalena Marinari; Elliott Young; Monique Laney; Yael Schacher MO - University of Illinois Press (2023) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Kovakantinen kirja
Surrounded by the widespread misery of the Depression, left-leaning classical music composers sought a musical language that both engaged the masses and gave voice to their concerns. Maria Cristina Fava explores the rich creative milieu shaped by artists dedicated to using music and theater to advance the promotion, circulation, and acceptance of leftist ideas in 1930s New York City. Despite tensions between aesthetic and pragmatic goals, the people and groups produced works at the center of the decade’s sociopolitical and cultural life. Fava looks at the Composers’ Collective of New York and its work on proletarian music and workers’ songs before turning to the blend of experimentation and vernacular idioms that shaped the political use of music within the American Worker’s Theater Movement. Fava then reveals how composers and theater practitioners from these two groups achieved prominence within endeavors promoted by the Works Project Administration.
Fava’s history teases out fascinating details from performances and offstage activity attached to works by composers such as Marc Blitzstein, Charles Seeger, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Elie Siegmeister, and Harold Rome. Endeavors encouraged avant-garde experimentation while nurturing innovations friendly to modernist approaches and an interest in non-western music. Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock offered a memorable example that found popular success, but while the piece achieved its goals, it became so wrapped up in myths surrounding workers’ theater that critics overlooked Blitzstein’s musical ingenuity.
Provocative and original, Art Music Activism considers how innovative classical composers of the 1930s balanced creative aims with experimentation, accessible content, and a sociopolitical message to create socially meaningful works.