Hanns Eisler: A Rebel in Music: Selected Writings

Contents

• Preface by David Blake, Introduction by Manfred Grabs, Editor's Note, 32 Essays by Hanns Eisler:
• 1. On Old and New Music,
• 2. Satirical Aphorisms,
• 3. On the Situation in Modern Music,
• 4. Progress in the Workers' Music Movement,
• 5. The Builders of a New Music Culture,
• 6. Our Revolutionary Music,
• 7. Blast-Furnace Music,
• 8. Music for Workers' Orchestras,
• 9. Address to a Solidarity Concert,
• 10. Letter to Ernst Hermann Meyer,
• 11. On Schoenberg,
• 12. The Birth of the Worker's Song,
• 13. A Musical Journey through America,
• 14. Problems of Working-Class Music,
• 15. Hollywood Seen from the Left,
• 16. Some Remarks on the Situation of the Modern Composer,
• 17. The Crisis in Music,
• 18. From My Practical Work,
• 19. Letter to Bertolt Brecht,
• 20. On a Concert for the International Brigade in Spain,
• 21. Labor, Labor Movement and Music,
• 22. Fantasia in G-men,
• 23. Basic Social Questions of Modern Music,
• 24. Thoughts on the Anniversary of Beethoven's Death,
• 25. Bertolt Brecht and Music,
• 26. On Good Listening,
• 27. Song Born to Struggle,
• 28. I Once Knew a Headwaiter,
• 29. On Stupidity in Music,
• 30. America's War of Independence - Indirect Aggression,
• 31. Schweik and German Militarism,
• 32. Thoughts on Form and Content, Chronology