Singing Songs of Social Significance: Children's Music and Leftist Pedagogy in 1930s America
Description:
In their shared goal of communicating left-wing principles to children through music, Marc Blitzstein's Worker's Kids of the World (1935), Aaron Copland's The Second Hurricane (1937), and Alex North's The Hither and Thither of Danny Dither (1941) exhibit a fundamental unity of purpose that binds them both to each other and to the extensive leftist pedagogical efforts of their time. By observing the parallel relationship among these three children's works and contemporary youth organizations, …
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Date:
December 2008
Creator:
Haas, Benjamin D.
Partner:
UNT Libraries