Tania León's Stride : a polyrhythmic life /

Tania León's Stride : a polyrhythmic life /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Madrid, Alejandro L., author.
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.
Subject:	León, Tania. León, Tania. Composers -- United States -- Biography. Composers. United States. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13515329

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ISBN:	9780252052873 0252052870 9780252043949 9780252086014
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2022).
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. 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"--
Other form:	Print version: Madrid, Alejandro L. Tania León's Stride Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021 9780252043949

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Notes on a Biographical Counterpoint
Tonic : The House on Salud Street
Modulation and Displacement : cubana de adentro, cubana de afuera
Syncopation and Color : Adapting to New Life Rhythms
Direction : Leading in Music, Leading in Life
Voice : Style and Idea in the Music of Tania León
Canon : Representation, Identity, and Legacy
Epilogue. Tania Léon's Stride : An Echo that Reaches Our Ears.