Unsettled Scores

Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler

Sally Bick (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2019
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04281-2 (ISBN)

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The Hollywood careers of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler brought the composers and their high art sensibility into direct conflict with the premier producer of America's potent mass culture. Drawn by Hollywood's potential to reach—and edify—the public, Copland and Eisler expertly wove sophisticated musical ideas into Hollywood and, each in their own distinctive way, left an indelible mark on movie history. Sally Bick's dual study of Copland and Eisler pairs interpretations of their writings on film composing with a close examination of their first Hollywood projects: Copland's music for Of Mice and Men and Eisler's score for Hangmen Also Die! Bick illuminates the different ways the composers treated a film score as means of expressing their political ideas on society, capitalism, and the human condition. She also delves into Copland's and Eisler's often conflicted attempts to adapt their music to fit Hollywood's commercial demands, an enterprise that took place even as they wrote hostile critiques of the film industry.

Sally Bick is an associate professor of music at the University of Windsor.

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Background Stories2. Copland on Hollywood3. Copland, Hollywood, and American Musical Modernism: Of Mice and Men4. Eisler in America: The Film Music Project and Composing for the Films5. Eisler in Hollywood: Hangmen Also Die!EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndexBack cover

Erscheinungsdatum	23.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	11 black & white photographs, 4 tables, 111 lines of music
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-04281-6 / 0252042816
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04281-2 / 9780252042812
Zustand	Neuware