Dvorak's Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music (eBook)

Joseph Horowitz (Autor)

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2021
256 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-88125-7 (ISBN)

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In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvorak prophesied a "e;great and noble"e; school of American classical music based on the searing "e;negro melodies"e; he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while Black music would found popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall.Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, he looks back to literary figures-Emerson, Melville and Twain-to ponder how American music can connect with a "e;usable past"e;. The result is a new paradigm, that makes room for Black composers, including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Dawson and Florence Price, to redefine the classical canon.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2021
• Vorwort: George Shirley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Schlagworte: Aaron Copland • antonin dvok • Antonin Dvorak • Charles Ives • Classical music • florence price • Harry Burleigh • Leonard Bernstein • Mark Twain • nathaniel dett • plantation songs • racism in music • sorrow songs • Spirituals • virgil thompson • william dawson • william grant still
• ISBN-10: 0-393-88125-3 / 0393881253
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-88125-7 / 9780393881257