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Ruth Crawford

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ruth Crawford 1901-53, American composer, b. East Liverpool, Ohio. Crawford attended music schools in Jacksonville, Fla., and Chicago. Her most frequently performed composition is a string quartet (1931). She also collected and published American folk music with her husband, the musicologist and composer Charles Seeger, father of the folk singer Pete Seeger. ... Read more
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ...musicologist Charles Seeger (1886–1979) in 1931, becoming folk singer Pete Seeger 's stepmother. She composed little after that but became an influential curator of American folk music. Ruth Crawford Seeger Ruth Crawford Seeger Ruth Crawford Seeger Read more
Seeger, Ruth Porter Crawford
Encyclopedia of World Biography Ruth Porter Crawford Seeger American composer, music teacher and musicologist Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901 – 1953) is regarded...downtrodden. Early Years Seeger was born Ruth Porter Crawford was born July 3, 1901, in East Liverpool... Read more

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OBIT - CRAWFORD, RUTH REYNOLDS
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Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon. (Musical Women).
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Ruth H. Crawford
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 9/19/2002; ; 170 words ; ROCKLAND - Ruth H. (Goulding) Crawford, 91, of Rockland, a former employee...Weymouth. Besides Rockland Webbing, Mrs. Crawford worked at the Woolworth's and the...Agers. Wife of the late Harry C. Crawford, she is survived by two sons, Theodore... Read more
Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon.(essay)(Critical essay)
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