Charles Ives in the mirror : American histories of an iconic composer /
David C. Paul.
- Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource.
- Music in American Life .
Conservative transcendentalist or modernist firebrand? : Ives and his first publics, 1921-1934 -- Songs of our fathers : the advocacy of Henry Cowell and the appeal of the American past, 1927-1947 -- Winning hearts and minds : Ives as Cold War icon, 1947-1965 -- The prison of culture : Ives, American studies, and intellectual history, 1965-1985 -- Musicology makes its mark : Ives and the history of style, 1965-1985 -- Ives at century's turn.
A unique reception history charting the composer's hard-fought rise to preeminence.