Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War

Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War is the first sustained attempt to understand some of Copland's best known music in the context of leftwing social, political, and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War.

In the 1930s Aaron Copland began to write in an accessible style he called "imposed simplicity." Works like El Sal n M xico, Billy the Kid, Lincoln Portrait, and Appalachian Spring not only brought the co…