"Leonard Bernstein's On the Town (1944): The Politics of Race in Wartime America" - presentation by Carol Oja April 2, 2009

Carol Oja is the William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University. Oja's research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American musical traditions. Her book, Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (2000), won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Other books include Copland and his World (co-edited with Judith Tick, 2005); Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds; A Celebration of American Music: Words and Music in Honor of H. Wiley Hitchcock; and American Music Recordings: A Discography of 20th-Century U.S. Composers.

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