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Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (Hardcover)
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Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Keynotes
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Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by
Martha Graham, counts among the best known American contributions
to the global concert hall and stage. In the years since its
premiere-as a dance work at the Library of Congress in 1944-it has
become one of Copland's most widely performed scores, and the
Martha Graham Dance Company still treats it as a signature work.
Over the decades, the dance and the music have taken on a range of
meanings that have transformed a wartime production into a
seemingly timeless expression of American identity, both musically
and visually. In this Oxford Keynotes volume, distinguished
musicologist Annegret Fauser follows the work from its inception in
the midst of World War II to its intersections with contemporary
American culture, whether in the form of choreographic
reinterpretations or musical ones, as by John Williams, in 2009,
for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. A concise and
lively introduction to the history of the work, its realization on
stage, and its transformations over time, this volume combines deep
archival research and cultural interpretations to recount the
creation of Appalachian Spring as a collaboration between three
creative giants of twentieth-century American art: Graham, Copland,
and Isamu Noguchi. Building on past and current scholarship, Fauser
critiques the myths that remain associated with the work and its
history, including Copland's famous disclaimer that Appalachian
Spring had nothing to do with the eponymous Southern mountain
region. This simultaneous endeavor in both dance and music studies
presents an incisive exploration this work, situating it in various
contexts of collaborative and individual creation.
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