Brecht, music and culture : Hans Eisler in conversation with Hans Bunge /
edited and translated by Sabine Berendse and Paul Clements
- London [etc.] : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014
- xv, 289 p. ; 22 cm
- Methuen drama .
- Methuen drama .
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Conté: Notes to the German edition / by Hans Bunge -- Translator's note -- Conversation 1: 14 Ways of Describing Rain - Meetings between Brecht and Arnold Schoenberg, Charlie Chaplin and Thomas Mann - Brecht and Music. Conversation 2: Galileo - Hollywood Elegies - Brecht and Feuchtwanger - Brecht and Music for the Theatre - Schweyk in the Second World War. Conversation 3: Brecht on Arnold Schoenberg - Gestic Music - The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Doblin's 65th Birthday Party. Conversation 4: Music for The Private Life of the Master Race - Prologue to Galileo - Eisler and the House Committee on Un-American Activities - The Mother in New York - Brecht and Stefan Zweig - Bajazzo. Conversation 5: Brecht's Hexameters for the Communist Manifesto - Was Brecht a Marxist? - Brecht's Method of Verfremdung. Conversation 6: 'To Those Born Later' - Boogie-Woogie - Eisler on Religion - Galileo. Conversation 7: 'Hotel Room 1942' - Holderlin. Conversation 8: On Stupidity in Music I - Holderlin. Conversation 9: Hans Mayer's book on Brecht - Brecht and Georg Lukacs. Conversation 10: The Music to Schweyk in the Second World War - On Stupidity in Music II. Conversation 11: Holderlin Poems - On Stupidity in Music III. Conversation 12: Eisler on Classical Literature, on the Function of Art, on Cybernetics and on Napoleon. Conversation 13: Serious Songs - Eisler's Plans for a Symphony. Conversation 14: Eisler and Bunge Compare Their Experiences as Soldiers -- Afterword: For the First Edition of the 'Conversations' / by Stephan Hermlin -- Notes -- Appendix