Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Introduction: The Course of Empire 1 Part One. Arthur Farwell’s West 1. The Wa-Wan and the West 23 2. Western Democracy, Western Landscapes, Western Music 56 Part Two. Western Encounters: Charles Wakefield Cadman and Others 3. Encountering Indians 87 4. Staging the West 124 Part Three. American Pastorals 5. West of Eden 155 6. Power in the Land 179 7. Harvest Home 204 Part Four. Roy Harris: Provincial Cowboy, White Hope 8. How Roy Harris Became Western 227 9. Manifest Destiny 246 10. The Composer as Folk Singer 268 Part Five. Aaron Copland: From Orient to Occident 11. The Saga of the Prairies 293 12. Communal Song, Cosmopolitan Song 317 13. Copland and the Cinematic West 351 Conclusion: On the Trail 369 Notes 375 Selected Bibliography 421 Index 437 ...