Nationalist and Populist Composers: Voices of the American People

by Steve Schwartz

Populism and nationalism in classical music held a significant place between the world wars with composers such as George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein creating a soundtrack to the lives of everyday Americans. While biographies of these individual composers exist, no single book has taken on this period as a direct contradiction to the modernist dichotomy between the music of Stravinsky and Schoenberg. In Nationalist and Populist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442257660
• ISBN13: 9781442257665
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"