Musical Modernism and German Cinema from 1913 to 1933 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book investigates the relationship between musical Modernism and German cinema. It paves the way for anunorthodox path of research, one which has been little explored up until now. The main figures of musical Modernism, from Alban Berg to Paul Hindemith, and from Richard Strauss to Kurt Weill, actually had a significant relationship with cinema. True, it was a complex and contradictory relationship in which cinema often emerged more as an aesthetic point of reference than an objective reality; nonetheless, the reception of the language and aesthetic of cinema had significant influence on the domain of music. Between 1913 and 1933, Modernist composers' exploration of cinema reached such a degree of pervasiveness and consistency as to become a true aesthetic paradigm, a paradigm that sat at the very heart of the Modernist project. In this insightful volume, Finocchiaro shows that the creative confrontation with the avant-garde medium par excellence can be regarded as a vector of musical Modernism: a new aesthetic paradigm for the very process - of deliberate misinterpretation, creative revisionism, and sometimes even intentional subversion of the Classic-Romantic tradition - which realized the "dream of Otherness" of the Modernist generation.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	2018
First published:	2017
Authors:	Francesco Finocchiaro
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	259
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-58261-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Music > General
LSN:	3-319-58261-5
Barcode:	9783319582610

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