1st Edition
Walt Whitman and Modern Music War, Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood
Edited By Lawrence Kramer
Copyright 2000
202 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
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Lawrence Kramer
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