Description: Dvorak's Prophecy : And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music, Hardcover by Horowitz, Joseph; Shirley, George (FRW), ISBN 0393881245, ISBN-13 9780393881240, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 Dvoérâak 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 throughoutAmerican 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 Bernsteinand 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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Book Title: Dvorak?S Prophecy : and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Topic: History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.1 in
Genre: Music
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Author: Joseph Horowitz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
