Lawrence Kramer

Walt Whitman and Modern Music

War, Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood
Herausgeber: Kramer, Lawrence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Walt Whitman's poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the transformation of Whitman's nineteenth-century texts into vehicles for confronting twentieth-century problems-aesthetic, social, and political. The contributors pay careful attention to music and poetry alike in examining how the Whitman settings become exemplary means of dealing with both the tragic and utopian faces of modernism. The book is accompanied by a CD recording by Joan Heller and Thomas Stumpf of complete Whitman cycles composed by Kurt Weill, George Crumb, and Lawrence Kramer, and the first recording of four Whitman songs composed in the 1920s by Marc Blitzstein.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780815331544
• ISBN-10: 0815331541
• Artikelnr.: 21612624

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Kramer

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Lawrence Kramer 'Red War is My Song': Whitman, Higginson and
Civil War Music. John Picker 'No Armpits, Please: We're British': Whitman
and English Music, 1884-1936. Byron Adams Eros, Expressionism and Exile:
Whitman in German Music. Walter and Werner Grunzweig Reclaiming Walt: Marc
Blitzstein's Whitman Settings. David Metzer A Visionary Backward Glance:
Divided Experience in Paul Hindemith's 'When Lilacs Last in the Doorway
Bloom'd'. Kathy Rugoff Like Falling Leaves: The Erotics of Mourning in Four
Drum-Taps Settings. Lawrence Kramer