Making Music Modern : New York in the 1920s

An Introduction: The Modern Music Shop
Enter the Moderns
1. Leo Ornstein: "Wild Man" of the 1910s
2. Creating a God: The Reception of Edgar Varese
3. The Arrival of European Modernism
The Machine in the Concert Hall
4. Engineers of Art
5. Ballet Mecanique and International Modernist Networks
Spirituality and American Dissonance
6. Dane Rudhyar's Vision of Dissonance
7. The Ecstasy of Carl Ruggles
8. Henry Cowell's "Throbbing Masses of Sounds"
9. Ruth Crawford and the Apotheosis of Spiritual Dissonance
Myths and Institutions
10. A Forgotten Vanguard: The Legacy of Marion Bauer, Louis Gruenberg, Frederick Jacobi, and Emerson Whitmore
11. Organizing the Moderns
12. Women Patrons and Activists
New World Neoclassicism
13. Neoclassicism: "Orthodox Europeanism" or Empowering Internationalism?
14. The Transatlantic Gaze of Aaron Copland
15. Virgil Thomson's "Cocktail of Culture"
16. A Quartet of New World Neoclassicists
European Modernists and American Critics
17. Europeans in Performance and on Tour
18. Visionary Critics
Widening Horizons
19. Modernism and "The Jazz Age"
20. Crossing Over with George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman, and the Modernists
Epilogue
Selected Discography

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