{"product_id":"music-for-the-common-man-aaron-copland-during-the-depression-and-war-paperback","title":"Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland During the Depression and War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Bergman Crist\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMusic for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War \u003c\/em\u003eis the first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best known music in the context of leftwing social, political, and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the 1930s Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he called \"imposed simplicity.\" Works like \u003cem\u003eEl Salón México, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAppalachian Spring\u003c\/em\u003e not only brought the composer unprecedented popular success but also came to define an American sound. Yet the political alignment behind this musical idiom--the social agenda that might be heard within these familiar pieces--has been largely overlooked, even though it has long been acknowledged that Copland subscribed to leftwing ideals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis politics never merely accorded with mainstream New Deal liberalism or wartime patriotism, however, but advanced a progressive vision of American society and culture. His music from the thirties and forties relates to the politics of radical progressivism, which affirmed a fundamental sensitivity toward those less fortunate, support of multiethnic pluralism, belief in social democracy, and faith that America's past could be put in service of a better future. Investing symbols of America--whether the West, folk song, patriotism, or the people--with progressive social ideals, Copland's music wrestles with the political complexities and cultural contradictions of the era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth Bergman Crist\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Music, Princeton University, and co-editor (with Wayne Shirley) of \u003cem\u003eThe Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland \u003c\/em\u003e(Yale, 2006).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 12, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45256642920550,"sku":"9780195383591","price":79.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/NVJTQlNZWDF4eXdXWVJZL01SVmsyQT09.webp?v=1773737427","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/music-for-the-common-man-aaron-copland-during-the-depression-and-war-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}