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Tables of Contents for Making Music Modern
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: The Modern Music Shop
3
8
Enter the Moderns
Leo Ornstein: ``Wild Man'' of the 1910s
11
14
Creating a God: The Reception of Edgard Varese
25
20
The Arrival of European Modernism
45
14
The Machine in the Concert Hall
Engineers of Art
59
12
Ballet Mecanique and International Modernist Networks
71
26
Spirituality and American Dissonance
Dane Rudhyar's Vision of Dissonance
97
14
The Ecstasy of Carl Ruggles
111
16
Henry Cowell's ``Throbbing Masses of Sounds''
127
17
Ruth Crawford and the Apotheosis of Spiritual Dissonance
144
11
Myths and Institutions
A Forgotten Vanguard: The Legacy of Marion Bauer, Frederick Jacobi, Emerson Whithorne, and Louis Gruenberg
155
22
Organizing the Moderns
177
24
Women Patrons and Activists
201
30
New World Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism: ``Orthodox Europeanism'' or Empowering Internationalism?
231
6
The Transatlantic Gaze of Aaron Copland
237
15
Virgil Thomson's ``Cocktail of Culture''
252
12
A Quartet of New World Neoclassicists
264
21
European Modernists and American Critics
Europeans in Performance and on Tour
285
12
Visionary Critics
297
16
Widening Horizons
Modernism and the ``Jazz Age''
313
5
Crossing Over with George Gershwin, Paul Whiteman, and the Modernists
318
43
Epilogue
361
4
Selected Discography
365
2
Appendix: Programs of Modern--Music Societies in New York, 1920--1931
367
40
Notes
407
52
Selected Bibliography
459
10
Index
469