Music for the Common Man examines Copland's most celebrated music in the context of progressive politics during the 1930s and 1940s, arguing that such works as El Salón México, Billy the Kid, and Appalachian Spring represent the aesthetic expression of leftwing cultural currents.
Music for the Common Man examines Copland's most celebrated music in the context of progressive politics during the 1930s and 1940s, arguing that such works as El Salón México, Billy the Kid, and Appalachian Spring represent the aesthetic expression of leftwing cultural currents.
Elizabeth Bergman Crist is Assistant Professor of Music, Princeton University, and co-editor (with Wayne Shirley) of The Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland (Yale, 2006).
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Introduction 12: Expanding Americaural Front 3: Creating Community 4: "The Dancing of an Attitude" 5: In Wartime Conclusion