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Fall 2001 Volume XXXI, No. 1









Celebrating Ruth Crawford Seeger
by Ellie M. Hisama


Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Virtual Autobiography
by Judith Tick


Ruth Crawford Seeger's Contributions to Musical Modernism
by Joseph N. Straus


Thoughts of Silver Spring, 1938
by Mike Seeger


About Dio
by Peggy Seeger


Selected Discography


Recommended Reading



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Ruth Crawford Seeger:
Recommended Reading

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Filene, Benjamin. Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. For more information


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print

Gaume, Matilda. Ruth Crawford Seeger: Memoirs, Memories, Music. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1986.

Greer, Taylor A. A Question of Balance: The Musical Philosophy of Charles Seeger. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
For more information

Hisama, Ellie M. Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Marion Bauer, Ruth Crawford, and Miriam Gideon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. For more information

Kammen, Michael. American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the Twentieth Century. New York: Basic Books, 1999. For more information, search for Kammen at Basicbooks.com

Oja, Carol J. Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. For more information

Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads, collected and compiled by John A. and Alan Lomax; music editor, Ruth Crawford Seeger. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2000 [1941]. For more information


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Pescatello, Ann M. Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.
For more information on ordering

Reuss, Richard A. with Joanne C. Reuss. American Folk Music and Left-Wing Politics, 1927-1957. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000. For more information


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Seeger, Charles. Studies in Musicology, 1935-1975. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

Seeger, Charles. Studies in Musicology II: 1929-1979. ed. Ann M. Pescatello. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
For more information

Seeger, Ruth Crawford. The Music of American Folk Song and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music, ed. Larry Polansky. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2001.
For more information

Straus, Joseph N. The Music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. For more information

Tick, Judith. Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer’s Search for
American Music
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
For more information


Yung, Bell and Helen Rees, ed. Understanding Charles Seeger: Pioneer in American Musicology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. For more information

 


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