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Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West. By Beth E. Levy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

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Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West. By Beth E. Levy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2014

Mariana Whitmer
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 8 , Special Issue 3: Music and Sound in American Cinema, 1927–56 , August 2014 , pp. 416 - 420
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Copyright © The Society for American Music 2014 

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References

1 Jerome Moross, interview with Paul Snook, WRVR Radio, “Composer in Our Time,” 1970, cassette recording.

2 Cadman, Charles Wakefield, “The ‘Idealization’ of Indian Music,” Musical Quarterly 1/3 (July 1915): 388Google Scholar.

3 Quoted in an article on Grofé on the Songwriters Hall of Fame website; see http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibits/bio/C252.

4 A review of Levy's book by Kathryn Kalinak appears in Pacific Historical Review 82/3 (August 2013): 440–41.

5 Tischler, Barbara, An American Music: The Search for an American Musical Identity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)Google Scholar.

6 Letter from Aaron Copland to William Wyler, 27 July 1957; Gregory Peck Papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

7 Levy's book was given the 2014 Lowens Book Award of the Society for American Music and the 2013 Music in American Cultures Award of the American Musicological Society. It has been reviewed in numerous journals. The most extensive review is likely that by Charles Hiroshi Garrett in Journal of the American Musicological Society 66/2 (Summer 2013): 584–90.

8 See Levy, Beth, “The Great Crossing: Nostalgia and Manifest Destiny in Aaron Copland's The Red Pony,” Journal of Film Music 2/2–4 (Winter 2009): 201–23Google Scholar; Levy, “‘The White Hope of American Music’: or, How Roy Harris Became Western,” American Music 19/2 (Summer 2001): 131–67; and Levy, “From Orient to Occident: Aaron Copland and the Sagas of the Prairie,” in Aaron Copland and His World, ed. Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick, 307–49 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).