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Dvorak's Prophecy - And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music (Hardcover)
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Dvorak's Prophecy - And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music (Hardcover)
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In 1893 the composer Antonin Dvorak prophesied a "great and noble"
school of American classical music based on the searing "negro
melodies" he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United
States a year before. But while Black music would found popular
genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the
concert hall. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural
history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to Gershwin's
Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for
explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American
classical music fashioned by Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland,
he looks back to literary figures-Emerson, Melville and Twain-to
ponder how American music can connect with a "usable past". The
result is a new paradigm, that makes room for Black composers,
including Harry Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, William Dawson and
Florence Price, to redefine the classical canon.
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