Hans Eisler’s songs: struggle, exile and autonomy of art
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2009.739n1062Keywords:
Eisler, Weimar Republic, exile, politics, songs, autonomy of artAbstract
This article describes and analyzes the techniques and lyrics employed by Hanns Eisler in some of the songs he composed during the Weimar Republic and later on during his exile in the United States. If the early compositions were created with the aim of contributing to the workers’ political struggle and thus reflect Eisler’s rejection of the autonomy of art, or art for its own sake, the later ones can be interpreted as symptoms of what I here call the “forced” autonomy of art.
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Adorno, Theodor y Eisler, Hanns (1994): Composing for the Films, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, Athlone Press.
Benjamin, Walter (1991): Gesammelte Schriften Band III, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp.
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Betz, Albrecht (1994): Música de un tiempo que está haciéndose a sí mismo, trad. Ángel-Fernando Royo, Madrid, Tecnos.
Schebera, Jürgen (1998): Eisler. Eine Biographie in Texten, Bildern und Dokumenten, Mainz, Schott.
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2009-10-30
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Arribas, S. (2009). Hans Eisler’s songs: struggle, exile and autonomy of art. Arbor, 185(739), 919–926. https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2009.739n1062
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