![]() Radicalized by the Depression, she spent much of the ensuing two decades working aggressively for social change with her husband and stepson, the folksinger Pete Seeger. Collaborating with poet Carl Sandburg on folk songĪrrangements in the twenties, and with the famous folk-song collectors John and Alan Lomax in the 1930s, she emerged as a central figure in the American folk music revival, issuing several importantīooks of transcriptions and arrangements and pioneering the use of American folk songs in children's music education. But her legacy extends far beyond the cutting edge of modern music. ![]() ![]() Joining Aaron Copland and Henry Cowell as a key member of the 1920s musical avant-garde, she went on to study with modernist theorist and future husband Charles Seeger, writing her masterpiece, String Quartet 1931, not long after. ![]() Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is frequently considered the most significant American female composer in this century. ![]()
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