Aaron Copland in Latin America music and cultural politics /

"Between 1941 and 1963, Aaron Copland made four government-sponsored tours of Latin America that drew extensive attention at home and abroad. Interviews with eyewitnesses, previously untapped Latin American press accounts, and Copland's diaries inform Carol A. Hess's in-depth examinat...

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Author / Creator: Hess, Carol A (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Imprint: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2023.
Series:Music in American life
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Online Access:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.
Available in Oxford Open Ebooks.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: PART I. A Citizen Diplomat Prepares. Introduction; Copland and the Beginnings of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy ; Copland as Good Neighbor : A Musical Diplomat and the OIAA
  • PART II. Copland, Latin America, and World War II. Diplomat "in the Field" ; Copland in Argentina ; Copland in Brazil ; Copland in Chile ; "The Fiery Trial Through Which We Pass" : The Americas at War
  • PART III. Copland, Latin America, and the Postwar. Copland, Latin America, and the Early Cold War ; Shifting Ground : Copland, Latin America, and the Crisis of Modernism ; A "Living Refutation to Communist-Inspired Lies" : Copland in Latin America in the Sixties ; Latin American Classical Music and Memory.