Hanns Eisler: A Rebel in Music: Selected Writings
- Author: Eisler
- Translator: Meyer, Marjorie
- Editor: Grabs, Manfred
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- 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