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Music in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates and analyzes
the ways in which Fitzgerald integrated music with literature
through his entire writing career, from his early Triangle Club
lyrics to his later Hollywood screenplays, but most significantly
in the novels and short stories for which he is most famous.
Growing up during the first resonating outbursts of popular music
the ragtime era and the jazz age Fitzgerald filled his fiction with
popular songs to express the topics, mores, and energy of his
times. As the years passed from World War I to the Roaring Twenties
and the Great Depression, these songs brought to his work the
varying effects that they had on a mass society: stimulation,
romance, nostalgia, and consolation. The songs also contributed to
the modernist traits of his style by creating a mixed-media texture
and allusive openings to shows or movies in which the songs
appeared. Although popular culture seemed appealing, Fitzgerald
constantly worried about how it affected the stature of his works.
He carefully distinguished between his popular short stories and
his classic novels. But just as songs incorporated popular culture
into his works, so other musical qualities, which came to him from
classical music by means of poetry, furnished imagery and structure
that enhanced the classic value of his novels. Even from his later
work on screenplays, which he considered a low type of writing,
Fitzgerald learned to transform the art and industry of film into
fitting material for what could have been his last classic novel,
and music provided both popular and classical elements to advance
this effort. Fitzgerald experienced and appreciated the lively new
music of his time. In his writing he preserved, organized, and
interpreted it for future generations."
Music in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates and analyzes
the ways in which Fitzgerald integrated music with literature
through his entire writing career, from his early Triangle Club
lyrics to his later Hollywood screenplays, but most significantly
in the novels and short stories for which he is most famous.
Growing up during the first resonating outbursts of popular
music-the ragtime era and the jazz age-Fitzgerald filled his
fiction with popular songs to express the topics, mores, and energy
of his times. As the years passed from World War I to the Roaring
Twenties and the Great Depression, these songs brought to his work
the varying effects that they had on a mass society: stimulation,
romance, nostalgia, and consolation. The songs also contributed to
the modernist traits of his style by creating a mixed-media texture
and allusive openings to shows or movies in which the songs
appeared. Although popular culture seemed appealing, Fitzgerald
constantly worried about how it affected the stature of his works.
He carefully distinguished between his popular short stories and
his classic novels. But just as songs incorporated popular culture
into his works, so other musical qualities, which came to him from
classical music by means of poetry, furnished imagery, and
structure that enhanced the classic value of his novels. Even from
his later work on screenplays, which he considered a low type of
writing, Fitzgerald learned to transform the art and industry of
film into fitting material for what could have been his last
classic novel, and music provided both popular and classical
elements to advance this effort. Fitzgerald experienced and
appreciated the lively new music of his time. In his writing he
preserved, organized, and interpreted it for future generations.
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