Unsettled Scores : Politics, Hollywood, and the Film Music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler /

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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 so...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bick, Sally (Author)
Other Authors: Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962, Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Eisler, Hanns, > 1898-1962.
Copland, Aaron, > 1900-1990.
Eisler, Hanns, > 1898-1962 > Criticism and interpretation.
Copland, Aaron, > 1900-1990 > Criticism and interpretation.
Motion picture music.
Film, Musique de.
Film, Musique de > Histoire et critique.
Motion picture music > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Background stories
  • Copland on Hollywood
  • Copland, Hollywood, and American musical modernism : "Of mice and men"
  • Eisler in America : the film music project and composing for the films
  • Eisler in Hollywood : "Hangmen also die!"

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