Walt Whitman and Modern Music: War, Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood (Border Crossings) ISBN-13: 9781138870321
Walt Whitman and Modern Music: War, Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood (Border Crossings) ISBN-13: 9781138870321 | 9781138870321, Book, Kramer, Lawrence, Routledge | ISBN-10: 1138870323
ISBN-13: 9781138870321
Binding: Paperback
Author: Kramer, Lawrence
Details: Walt Whitmans poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the transformation of Whitmans nineteenth-century texts into vehicles for confronting twentieth-century problems-aesthetic, social, and political. The contributors pay careful attention to music and poetry alike in examining how the Whitman settings become exemplary means of dealing with both the tragic and utopian faces of modernism. The book is accompanied by a recording by Joan Heller and Thomas Stumpf of complete Whitman cycles composed by Kurt Weill, George Crumb, and Lawrence Kramer, and the first recording of four Whitman songs composed in the 1920s by Marc Blitzstein.
Release Date: 19-08-2015
Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.0 x 0.2 inches
Languages: English
Edition: 1
Number Of Pages: 202
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