Sound Within Sound
Ruth Crawford Seeger, Éliane Radigue, Galina Ustvolskaya, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. Music critic and BBC broadcaster Kate Molleson brings back a dozen pioneering 20th-century composers, nearly all of them women or composers of color, who worked far from London, Paris, Vienna and New York and were sidelined for systemic reasons. It is an alternative, truly global history of the century's music, and a campaigning book that challenges a canon built around a select few white men.
“It sends you running off to YouTube to discover their music.”
— The Telegraph
“An inspiring and inspired book.”
— Gramophone
“Vital and necessary.”
— Mojo
Praise as quoted on the Abrams book page.
Read it with headphones on and a search bar open. Every chapter is a door to music you were never taught.
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