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 | | True, Oja of logical necessity groups her chapters by topical themes: “Spirituality and American Dissonance” brings together studies of Dane Rudhyar, Carl Ruggles, Henry Cowell, and Ruth Crawford, while “New World Neoclassicism” does the same for Copland, Virgil Thomson, and a representative quartet of Roger Sessions, Walter Piston, Harris, and Carlos Chávez. |
 | | Elsewhere, well-chosen and extremely pertinent quotations from Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Frank Zappa, Paul Rosenfeld, Alexis de Tocqueville, E. Forster, and F. Scott Fitzgerald complement and counterpoint the topics under consideration. |
 | | Ruth Crawford, for instance, arrived in the city in 1929, and before 1930 had received only two performances there (the same number as Henry Eichheim and Carl Engel). |
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