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Mad music : Charles Ives, the nostalgic rebel / Stephen Budiansky.
| Author/creator | Budiansky, Stephen author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Lebanon, NH : ForeEdge, [2014] |
| Description | 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Dissonance is like a man -- Down east Yankee town -- Scenes from my childhood -- Here's to good old Yale -- Damn rot and worse -- Missionary enterprise -- A place in the soul -- Hard work -- A man's death is more or less a personal matter -- Rigging up a concert -- Like stones in a field at Redding. |
| Abstract | While many of Ive's best works received little attention in his lifetime, he is now appreciated as perhaps the most important American composer of the twentieth century and father of the diverse lines of Aaron Copland and John Cage. Ives was also a famously wealthy crank who made millions in the insurance business and tried hard to establish a reputation as a crusty New Englander. To the author, Ives's life story is a personification of America emerging as a world power: confident and successful, yet unsure of the role of art and culture in a modernizing nation. Though Ives steadfastly remained an outsider in many ways, his life and times inform us of subjects beyond music, including the mystic movement, progressive anticapitalism, and the initial hesitancy of turn-of-the-century-America modernist intellectuals. Deeply researched and elegantly written, this accessible biography tells a uniquely American story of a hidden genius, disparaged as a dilettante, who would shape the history of music in a profound way. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-296) and index. |
| LCCN | 2013028737 |
| ISBN | 9781611683998 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1611683998 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.I94 B85 2014 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |