Unsettled scores : politics, Hollywood, and the film music of Aaron Copland and Hanns Eisler / Sally Bick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bick, Sally, author.

Series:

Illinois scholarship online.

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film composers--United States--Biography.

Film composers.

Motion picture music.

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990--Criticism and interpretation.

Copland, Aaron.

Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962--Criticism and interpretation.

Eisler, Hanns.

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.

Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages).

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Summary:

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.

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!"

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2020).

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252051678

025205167X

OCLC:

1134797878