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Horowitz, Joseph, 1948- author.
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Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904.
Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
Music -- United States -- African American influences.
Music and race -- United States.
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Dvořák's prophecy : ...
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Dvořák's prophecy : and the vexed fate of Black classical music / Joseph Horowitz ; [with a foreword by George Shirley].
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Horowitz, Joseph, 1948- author.
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
Subjects
Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904.
Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
Music -- United States -- African American influences.
Music and race -- United States.
ISBN:
9780393881240 (hardcover) :
0393881245 (hardcover) :
Description:
xxiii, 229 pages ; 24 cm
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First edition.
Contents:
Foreword / by George Shirley -- Preamble. Using the past -- Dvořak, American music, and race -- In defense of nostalgia -- Nostalgic subversions -- Oedipal revolt -- The bifurcation of American music -- Classical music Black and "Red" -- Using history: a personal quest -- Summing up.
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"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 Antonin Dvorák 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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Hawaii State Library
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780.973 Ho
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Adult Nonfiction
780.973 Ho
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