by Beth E. Levy · University of California Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780520267763
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«Frontier Figures» is Beth E. Levy's music history essay, published by University of California Press in hardback (470 pages, in English).
It analyses how the American West, real and imagined, inspired the country's classical music. Composers such as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris and Virgil Thomson explore regionalism, race and the representation of indigenous people, pioneers and cowboys, and how that «western Americana» spread through scores, radio, recitals and film.
Volume 14 of the California Studies in 20th-Century Music series. Includes 10 black-and-white photographs and 84 musical examples.
Aimed at musicologists, postgraduate students and readers interested in the cultural and musical history of the United States.
