Tania León's Stride : a polyrhythmic life /
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| Author / Creator: | Madrid, Alejandro L., author. |
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| Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021] |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Music in American life Music in American life. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13515329 |
| Summary: | Acclaimed composer, sought-after conductor, esteemed educator, tireless advocate for the arts--Tania León's achievements encompass but also stretch far beyond contemporary classical music. Alejandro L. Madrid draws on oral history, archival work, and ethnography to offer the first in-depth biography of the artist. Breaking from a chronological account, Madrid looks at León through the issues that have informed and defined moments in her life and her professional works. León's words become a starting ground--but also a counterpoint--to the accounts of the people in her orbit. What emerges is more than an extraordinary portrait of an artist's journey. It is a story of how a human being reacts to the challenges thrown at her by history itself, be it the Cuban revolution or the struggle for civil and individual rights. <p>Nuanced and multifaceted, Tania León's Stride looks at the life, legacy, and milieu that created and sustained one of the most important figures in American classical music.</p> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252052873 0252052870 9780252043949 9780252086014 |