1st Edition

Franz Waxman: Between Film Music and the Concert Hall

350 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

350 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Description

Franz Waxman (1906–1967) was a jazz musician, orchestrator, film composer, concert organizer, conductor, and a composer of concert and opera works. It was only after his emigration to the USA in the early 1930s that Waxman built himself a career in the concert hall – before this point he was exclusively working for the film and entertainment industries. Ingeborg Zechner explores Waxman’s musical... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Biographical and Historical Contexts

1. Franz Waxman: Another émigré who made it in Hollywood? 2. Migration mechanisms in international film industry networks 3. The Los Angeles Music Festival (1947–1966) in contemporary institutional, aesthetic, and political context 4. Franz Waxman, the Los Angeles Music Festival, and Cold War cultural politics

Part 2: Discourse and Reception

5. The reception of Franz Waxman between film music and the concert hall: Methodological considerations 6. The reception of Hollywood film music from the 1930s to the 1960s 7. Franz Waxman as composer-conductor 8. Franz Waxman’s “double life” between film music and the concert hall 9. The contemporary reception of mediality between film music and the concert hall

Part 3: Media Transfers

10. Intermediality and making the case for film music as a work of art 11. The Paradine Case: The ambiguous relationship between film music and concert practices 12. The music of A Place in the Sun as a media hybrid 13. The intermedial construction of film music as a work of art through Franz Waxman’s soundtrack albums in the 1950s and 1960s

Conclusion

Appendices