Alva Review-Courier -

Max Ridgway, who teaches music-related classes at Northwestern Oklahoma State University as an adjunct instructor of music teaching guitar and strings courses, has published "Modernism: The Strange Story of Art and Music in the Twentieth Century" exclusively through Amazon.

Ridgway, the son of Alycen Yoder-Ridgway of Alva and the late Max Ridgway, graduated from Alva High School, earned his bachelor's degree in professional music from Berklee College of Music in Boston and a master's degree in music education from Northwestern.

His book is about the relationship between the various branches of...