{"product_id":"music-for-the-common-man-aaron-copland-during-the-depression-and-war-9780195151572","title":"Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland During the Depression and War","description":"In the 1930s, Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he described as imposed simplicity. Works like \u003cem\u003eEl Salón México, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAppalachian Spring\u003c\/em\u003e feature a tuneful idiom that brought the composer unprecedented popular success and came to define an American sound. Yet the cultural substance of that sound--the social and political perspective that might be heard within these familiar pieces--has until now been largely overlooked.\u003cbr\u003eWhile it has long been acknowledged that Copland subscribed to leftwing ideals, \u003cem\u003eMusic for the Common Man\u003c\/em\u003e is the first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best-known music in the context of leftwing social, political, and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War. Musicologist Elizabeth Crist argues that Copland's politics never merely accorded with mainstream New Deal liberalism, wartime patriotism, and Communist Party aesthetic policy, but advanced a progressive vision of American society and culture. Copland's music can be heard to accord with the political tenets of progressivism in the 1930s and '40s, including a fundamental sensitivity toward those less fortunate, support of multiethnic pluralism, belief in social democracy, and faith that America's past could be put in service of a better future. Crist explores how his works wrestle with the political complexities and cultural contradictions of the era by investing symbols of America--the West, folk song, patriotism, or the people--with progressive social ideals.\u003cbr\u003eMuch as been written on the relationship between politics and art in the 1930s and '40s, but very little on concert music of the era. \u003cem\u003eMusic for the Common Man\u003c\/em\u003e offers fresh insights on familiar pieces and the political context in which they emerged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth B. Crist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.52h x 6.44w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195151572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth B. Crist\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Musicology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her writings on Copland have appeared in \u003cem\u003eAmerican Music, The Musical Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJournal of Musicology\u003c\/em\u003e. She won an ASCAP Deems Taylor award for her article \"Aaron Copland and the Popular Front,\"\u003cbr\u003epublished earlier this year in the \u003cem\u003eJournal of the American Musicological Society.\u003c\/em\u003e She is co-editor (with Wayne Shirley) of \u003cem\u003eThe Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39930738737267,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":82.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d776ce64-79d3-4eba-a334-d88f0b4e6fc2.jpg?v=1647698592","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/music-for-the-common-man-aaron-copland-during-the-depression-and-war-9780195151572","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}