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Title:
Dvořák's prophecy : and the vexed fate of Black classical music / Joseph Horowitz ; [foreword by George Shirley].
ISBN:
9780393881240
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
©2022
Physical Description:
xxiii, 229 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Foreword / by George Shirley -- Preamble. Using the past -- Chapter 1. Dvořák, American music, and race. Dvořák's prophecy ; Dvořák's progeny: Burleigh and Coleridge-Taylor ; Black symphonists ; Porgy and Bess ; Appropriation debate -- Chapter 2. In defense of nostalgia. James Gibbons Huneker and the "Old Guard" ; In defense of nostalgia ; Henry Edward Krehbiel and "Negro melodies" ; Fragmentation of culture -- Chapter 3. Nostalgic subversions. Using the vernacular: Mark Twain and Charles Ives; Race and the moral core ; Transcendentalist past -- Chapter 4. Oedipal revolt. Useless past: Van Wyck Brooks and the myth of the "Gilded Age" ; Useless past: Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, and the standard narrative ; Leonard Bernstein and the Ives Case ; Copland and Mexico ; Postscript: The standard narrative and the CIA -- Chapter 5. Bifurcation of American music. Why American classical music stayed white ; Was there a usable musical past? ; Using Whitman and Melville ; Confluence ; Souls of Black folk -- Chapter 6. Classical music Black and "Red". Rediscovering William Levi Dawson ; Rediscovering Florence Price ; Rediscovering Nathaniel Dett ; America's forbidden composer -- Chapter 7. Using history: a personal quest. Condition of pastlessness ; Culture and "social control" ; Trigger warnings ; Reencountering Harry Burleigh ; Reencountering John Singer Sargent ; Reencountering Arthur Farwell ; Porgy and Dvořák's prophecy -- Summing up. A new paradigm ; Paradigm summarized ; Dvořák's prophecy.
Summary:
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 African American music 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. 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... " -- From dust jacket.
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OCLC Number:
on1253438121
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