Women of influence in contemporary music : nine American composers

Amy Beach, passionate Victorian : the life and work of an American composer, 1867-1944

Ruth Crawford Seeger : a composer's search for American music

Early Years: 1901-1920 -- A Minister's Daughter -- An "American Woman Pianist" -- Chicago: 1921-1929 -- The "Wonder City" -- New Ways of Knowing -- "Trees of Sound and Color": Music, 1924-1929 -- "A Career or Life?" -- New York: 1929-1930 -- One West 68th Street -- "The Curves in Our Friendship" -- "In Europe One Can Work!" -- "Dear Superwoman" -- New York: 1932-1936 -- Homecoming -- "Music as a Weapon in the Class Struggle" -- "A Thread Unwinding": Music, 1930-1932 -- "Composing Babies" -- Washington: 1936-1953 -- Discovering "Unmusical" America -- Lomax Country -- "The Breath of the Singer": Transcriptions -- American Folk Songs Go to School -- Dio's Circus -- A Fork in the Road -- "Keep the Song Going": Folk-Song Arrangements -- "Wading in Grace" -- Analysis by Ruth Crawford Seeger of the Third and Fourth Movements of the String Quartet 1931.