Stravinsky in the Americas explores the "pre-Craft" period of Igor Stravinsky's life, from when he first landed on American shores in 1925 to the end of World War II in 1945. Through a rich archival trove of ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and other documents, eminent musicologist H. Colin Slim examines the twenty-year period that began with Stravinsky as a radical European art-music composer and ended with him as a popular figure in American culture. This collection traces Stravinsky's rise to fame-catapulted in large part by his collaborations with Hollywood and Disney and marked by his extra-marital affairs, his grappling with feelings of anti-Semitism, and his encounters with contemporary musicians as the music industry was emerging and taking shape in midcentury America. Slim's lively narrative records the composer's larger-than-life persona through a close look at his transatlantic tours and domestic excursions, where Stravinsky's personal and professional life collided in often-dramatic ways.
ISBN: | 9780520299924 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Imprint: | University of California Press |
Published date: | 05 Mar 2019 |
DEWEY: | 780.92 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xxvi, 451 |
Weight: | 1078g |
Height: | 188mm |
Width: | 262mm |
Spine width: | 42mm |