{"product_id":"ruth-crawford-seeger-a-composers-search-for-american-music-9780195065091","title":"Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music","description":"\u003cp\u003eRuth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female composer in this century. Joining Aaron Copland and Henry Cowell as a key member of the 1920s musical avant-garde  she went on to study with modernist theorist and future husband Charles Seeger  writing her masterpiece  String Quartet 1931  not long after. But her legacy extends far beyond the cutting edge of modern music. Collaborating with poet Carl Sandburg on folk song arrangements in the twenties  and with the famous folk-song collectors John and Alan Lomax in the 1930s  she emerged as a central figure in the American folk music revival  issuing several important books of transcriptions and arrangements and pioneering the use of American folk songs in childrens music education. Radicalized by the Depression  she spent much of the ensuing two decades working aggressively for social change with her husband and stepson  the folksinger Pete Seeger.  This engrossing new biography emphasizes the choices Crawford Seeger made in her roles as composer  activist  teacher  wife and mother. The first woman to win a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in music composition  Crawford Seeger nearly gave up writing music as the demands of family  politics  and the folk song movement intervened. It was only at the very end of her life  with cancer sapping her strength  that she returned to composing. Written with unique insight and compassion  this book offers the definitive treatment of a fascinating twentieth-century figure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652024197173,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195065093","price":130.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195065091.jpg?v=1781848802","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ruth-crawford-seeger-a-composers-search-for-american-music-9780195065091","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}