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  • The Rite of Spring at 100

    by Severine Neff, Maureen Carr, Gretchen Horlacher, John Reef, Stephen Walsh, Stephanie Jordan0, Gabriele Brandstetter1, Millicent Hodson2, Annegret Fauser3, Mary E. Davis4, Brigid Cohen5, William Robin6, Tamara Levitz7, Kevin Bartig8, Tatiana Baranova Monighetti9, Natalia Braginskaya0, Grigory Lyzhov1, Olga Manulkina2, Svetlana Savenko3, Elena Vereshchagina4, Tatiana Vereshchagina5, Christy Keele6, Marianne C. Kielian-Gilbert7, Lynne Rogers8, Richard Taruskin9, Letitia Glozer0, Donald J. Raleigh1, Lynn Garafola2, Pieter C. van den Toorn3, Sara Hoffee4, Vladimir Tarnopolski5 ...
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    When Igor Stravinsky's ballet Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered during the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, its avant-garde music and jarring choreography scandalized audiences. Today it is considered one of the most influential musical works of the twentieth century. In this volume, the ballet finally receives the full critical attention it deserves, as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Performing Commemoration

    Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma

    by Annegret Fauser, Michael A. Figueroa ...
    Series series Music and Social Justice
    Public commemorations of various kinds are an important part of how groups large and small acknowledge and process injustices and tragic events. Performing Commemoration: Musical Reenactment and the Politics of Trauma looks at the roles music can play in public commemorations of traumatic events that range from the Armenian genocide and World War I to contemporary violence in the Democratic ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Politics of Musical Identity

    Selected Essays

    by Annegret Fauser ...
    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
    This volume explores the way in which composers, performers, and critics shaped individual and collective identities in music from Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1950s. Selected essays and articles engage with works and their reception by Richard Wagner, Georges Bizet (in an American incarnation), Lili and Nadia Boulanger, William Grant Still, and Aaron Copland, and with ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring

    by Annegret Fauser ...
    Series series Oxford Keynotes
    Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by Martha Graham, counts among the best known American contributions to the global concert hall and stage. In the years since its premiere-as a dance work at the Library of Congress in 1944-it has become one of Copland's most widely performed scores, and the Martha Graham Dance Company still treats it as a signature work. Over the ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Sounds of War

    Music in the United States during World War II

    by Annegret Fauser ...
    What role did music play in the United States during World War II? How did composers reconcile the demands of their country and their art as America mobilized both militarily and culturally for war? Annegret Fauser explores these and many other questions in the first in-depth study of American concert music during World War II. While Dinah Shore, Duke Ellington, and the Andrew Sisters entertained ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

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