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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	August 2023
Genre:	Musik
ISBN:	9780252087226
EAN-Code:	9780252087226
Verlag:	University Of Illinois Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 155 mm / B 235 mm / D 30 mm
Gewicht:	494 gr
Seiten:	316
Illustration:	7 black & white photographs, 1 chart
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Inhalt:

"An essential high culture institution, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has both supported and molded American musical culture. Denise Von Glahn examines the Foundation and its immense influence from the organization's prehistory and origins through the onset of World War II. Funded by the Guggenheim mining fortune, the Foundation took early shape from the efforts of Carroll Wilson, Frank Aydelotte, and Henry Allen Moe--three Rhodes Scholars who initially struggled to envision and implement the organization's ambitious goals. Von Glahn also examines the career of the longtime musical advisor Thomas Whitney Surette while profiling early awardees Aaron Copland, Ruth Crawford Seeger, William Grant Still, Roger Sessions, George Antheil, and Carlos Châavez. She examines the processes behind their selection, their values and aesthetics, and their relationships with the insiders and others who championed their work"--