Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century

“Generous, expansive, alarming, fantastical, perverse, humane, beautiful and ugly, provisional and incomplete: here finally is a portrait that reflects the messy contours of 20th-century classical music.” (Literary Review)

Sound Within Sound presents an alternative history of 20th-century composers—nearly all of them women or composers of color—by a leading international music critic.

Profiling a dozen pioneering 20th-century composers—including American modernist Ruth Crawford Seeger (mothe...