Walt Whitman and Modern Music - War, Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood (Hardcover)

Contents:
Introduction. Lawrence Kramer
'Red War is My Song': Whitman, Higginson and Civil War Music. John Picker
'No Armpits, Please: We're British': Whitman and English Music, 1884-1936. Byron Adams
Eros, Expressionism and Exile: Whitman in German Music. Walter and Werner Grünzweig
Reclaiming Walt: Marc Blitzstein's Whitman Settings. David Metzer
A Visionary Backward Glance: Divided Experience in Paul Hindemith's 'When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloom'd'. Kathy Rugoff
Like Falling Leaves: The Erotics of Mourning in Four Drum-Taps Settings. Lawrence Kramer