Book contents
- Mahler in Context
- Composers in Context
- Mahler in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Music Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Formation
- Part II Performance
- Part III Creation
- Part IV Mind, Body, Spirit
- Part V Influence
- Chapter 27 Posthumous Reputation, 1911 to World War II
- Chapter 28 Mahler and the Second Viennese School
- Chapter 29 The Mahler Revival
- Chapter 30 Broader Musical Influence
- Chapter 31 Adorno
- Chapter 32 Influences in Literature
- Chapter 33 Mahler on Disc
- Chapter 34 Film and Recent Popular Culture
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 34 - Film and Recent Popular Culture
from Part V - Influence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2020
- Mahler in Context
- Composers in Context
- Mahler in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Music Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Formation
- Part II Performance
- Part III Creation
- Part IV Mind, Body, Spirit
- Part V Influence
- Chapter 27 Posthumous Reputation, 1911 to World War II
- Chapter 28 Mahler and the Second Viennese School
- Chapter 29 The Mahler Revival
- Chapter 30 Broader Musical Influence
- Chapter 31 Adorno
- Chapter 32 Influences in Literature
- Chapter 33 Mahler on Disc
- Chapter 34 Film and Recent Popular Culture
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Mahler, who had mobilized the youth of his day against slovenly Tradition, reerupted into a newly youthful popular culture in the 1960s thanks to both the centenary of his birth and the advent of the long-playing record. Not only musicians were touched by the wave of new recordings; modern pop culture and youthful “avant-garde” now blithely bridged the once-opposed realms of “high” and “low” culture, opting for a more experimental and visionary one drawing on experiences of Zen, magic mushrooms, and LSD. Important examples of this trend are surveyed here, including the poetry of Jonathan Williams, the biopic by Ken Russell, the opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympics, the recent dramatization of the Gustav/Alma relationship by Percy and Felix Adlon, and modern American television programming. The conflicts and contradictions that made Mahler’s works a marketing challenge in their own time enabled him to speak to us all, regardless of racial or cultural identity.
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- Mahler in Context , pp. 291 - 299Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020