Download or read book Music for the Common Man written by Elizabeth B. Crist and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Crist attempts to understand some of Aaron Copland's most famous pieces of music in the context of left-wing social, political and cultural currents of the Great Depression and Second World War. She argues that his music from that time relates to the politics of radical progressivism.