Thursday, April 4, 2019

Mark Twain, Charles Ives, and Race

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 2 are twin American cultural landmarks, comparable in method and achievement. They both transform a hallowed Old World genre — the novel, the symphony — through recourse to New World vernacular speech. – Joe Horowitz



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