Aaron Copland and his world

Between memory and history : an introduction / Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick

Part I. Scanning a life. Copland and the prophetic voice / Howard Pollack ; Founding sons : Copland, Sessions, and Berger on genealogy and hybridity / Martin Brody

Part II. Copland's greater cultural world. "To become as human as possible" : the influence of Andre Gide on Aaron Copland / Paul Anderson ; Copland and American populism in the 1930s / Morris Dickstein ; From the New York avante-garde to Mexican modernists : Aaron Copland and the visual arts / Gail Levin ; Making an American dance : "Billy the Kid", "Rodeo", and "Appalachian Spring" / Lynn Garafola

Part III. Copland's inner circle. Dear Aaron, dear Lenny : a friendship in letters / Vivian Perlis ; Aaron Copland and Arthur Berger in correspondence / edited and introduced by Wayne D. Shirley

Part IV. Analytic perspectives. War drums, tolling bells, and Copland's piano sonata / Larry Starr ; Copland's gift to be simple within the cumulative mosaic complexities of his ballets / Elliott Antokoletz

Part V. Political edges. Copland and the politics of Americanism / Elizabeth B. Crist ; From orient to occident : Aaron Copland and the sagas of the prairie / Beth E. Levy ; Aaron Copland, Norman Rockwell, and the "Four Freedoms" : the office of war information's vision and sound in "The Cummington Story" (1945) / Neil Lerner ; "Aaron Copland Meets the Soviet Composers" : a television special / transcribed and edited by Emily Abrams

Part VI. Copland and his public. Aaron Copland and the Composers' Forum-Laboratory : a post-concert discussion, February 24, 1937 / transcribed and edited by Melissa de Graaf ; Copland on television : an annotated list of interviews and documentaries / compiled by Emily Abrams

Part VII. Reconfiguring Copland's world. Copland reconfigured / Leon Botstein.