Walt Whitman's poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted
settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and
German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the
transformation of Whitman's nineteenth-century texts into vehicles for
confronting twentieth-century problems-aesthetic, social, and
political. The contributors pay careful attention to music and poetry
alike in examining how the Whitman settings become exemplary means of
dealing with both the tragic and utopian faces of modernism. The book
is accompanied by a recording by Joan Heller and Thomas Stumpf of
complete Whitman cycles composed by Kurt Weill, George Crumb, and
Lawrence Kramer, and the first recording of four Whitman songs
composed in the 1920s by Marc Blitzstein.
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ISBN
9781135672423
Publisert
2020
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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