Description: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the life and work of the esteemed "ultra-modern" American composer and pioneering folk music activist, Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953).
Brief description: Ellie M. Hisama is professor of music at Columbia University.
Review Quotes: Broad intellectual sweep. . . . Raises questions of great importance to folklorists. . . . Fine scholarship and often elegant writing -- a model of verbal clarity and intellectual complexity. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in twentieth-century American music.--Jean R. Freedman "JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE"