...This chapter analyzes Graham’s Appalachian Spring (1944) as a work that encrypts its popular front critique of American history through revisions of the scenarios Graham wrote for Aaron Copland and changes in the choreography. The subtext of slavery and John Brown is discussed...

... greatest works as Billy the Kid and Appalachian Spring. Boulanger Nadia Chávez Carlos Ives Charles League of Composers Revueltas Silvestre Trask Katrina and Spencer Yaddo 1929 Young Composers Group Appalachian Spring ballet Billy the Kid Elegies for Violin...

... in the more progressive era of the 1930s and 1940s. The folkloric style he employed in Rodeo and Appalachian Spring also fell out of the interest of the public, and his full length opera The Tender Land struggled to find an audience. Copeland's involvement...