Dvořák's prophecy : and the vexed fate of Black classical music (Record no. 525113)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780393881240
Paper back/Hardbound pbk
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Classification number 780.92
Item number HOR
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Personal name Horowitz, Joseph
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Title Dvořák's prophecy : and the vexed fate of Black classical music
Statement of responsibility, etc / Joseph Horowitz and George Shirley
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
Year of publication 2022
Place of publication New York
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Number of Pages xxiii, 229 p.
Dimensions ; 24 cm
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Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographies and index
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Summary, etc A provocative interpretation of why classical music in America "stayed white"- how it got to be that way and what can be done about it. In 1893 the composer Antonín Dvořák prophesied a "great and noble school" of American classical music based on the "negro melodies" he had excitedly discovered since arriving in the United States a year before. But while BLack music would foster popular genres known the world over, it never gained a foothold in the concert hall. Black composers found few opportunities to have their works performed, and white composers mainly rejected Dvořák's lead. Joseph Horowitz ranges throughout American cultural history, from Frederick Douglass and Huckleberry Finn to George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and the work of Ralph Ellison, searching for explanations. Challenging the standard narrative for American classical music fashioned by Aaron Copland and Leonard Berstein, 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 Levi Dawson, and Florence Price, while giving increased prominence to Charles Ives and George Gershwin. Dvořák's Prophecy arrives in the midst of an important conversation about race in America--a conversation that is taking place in music schools and concert halls as well as capitals and boardroooms. As George Shirley writes in his foreword to the book, "We have been left unprepared for the current cultural moment. [Joseph Horowitz] explains how we got there [and] proposes a bigger world of American classical music than what we have known before. It is more diverse and more equitable. And it is more truthful.
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Topical Term African Americans Music
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Personal name George Shirley
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Koha item type English Books
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        Anna Centenary Library Anna Centenary Library 6TH FLOOR, B WING 05.03.2024 2492.00 780.92 HOR 680021 21.08.2024 Reference

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