Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music
ISBN: 9780822976851
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pittsburgh Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Seeger Charles 1886–1979; Musicians -- United States -- Biography;

This superb account pays fitting tribute to a seminal figure in the history of American music and in the field of ethnomusicology, placing his accomplishments within their social and historical contexts to underscore their significance. A tireless advocate of American folk music, Seeger (1886-1979) established the first musicology curriculum in the U.S. in 1913, at the University of California at Berkeley, and helped found the American Musicological Association. In the '30s, he developed music programs for the federal Resettlement Administration and the WPA; in the '40s, he served as director of the Pan American Union's Inter-American Music Center. In addition to his involvement in folk music and education, Seeger wrote criticism--which appeared under a pseudonym in the Communist Daily Worker --and numerous theoretical treatises. Pescatello, director of the national Scholars in the Schools program and a friend of Seeger's in his later years, presents masterly analyses of his complex theories as well as an admiring portrait of the man himself. Photos not seen by PW. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Ann M. Pescatello is a historian and the author or editor of numerous books, including Female and Male in Latin America: Essays; Power and Pawn: The Female in Iberian Families, Societies, and Cultures, and Studies in Musicology II: 1929-1979.

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