New World symphonies : how American culture changed European music

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New World symphonies : how American culture changed European music
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how American culture changed European music
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Jack Sullivan
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eng
Summary
This book shows for the first time the profound and transformative influence of American literature, music, and mythology on European music. Although the impact of European tradition on American composers is widely acknowledged, Jack Sullivan demonstrates that an even more powerful musical current has flowed from the New World to the Old. The spread of rock and roll around the world, the author contends, is only the latest chapter in a cross-cultural story that began in the nineteenth century with Gottschalk in Paris and Dvorak in New York. Sullivan explores the effects on European music of American authors as diverse as Twain, DuBois, Melville, and Langston Hughes, and he uncovers the African-American musical influence on Europe, beginning with spirituals and culminating in the impact of jazz on Stravinsky, Bartok, Walton, and other noted composers
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
780/.94
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
ML240
LC item number
.S89 1999
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography

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