Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West (Volume 14)

Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.

• Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century
• Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music
• Management and the Arts
• Graduate Review of Tonal Theory: A Recasting of Common-Practice Harmony, Form, and Counterpoint
• A Song to Save the Salish Sea: Musical Performance as Environmental Activism (Music, Nature, Place)
• Environmental Sound Artists: In Their Own Words
• Current Directions in Ecomusicology (Routledge Research in Music)
• Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Signs of Race)
• Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World, Revised Edition
• A Short Guide to Writing About Music (2nd Edition)