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Music in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Unheard Melodies
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Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
Publication date
March 3, 2015
Pages
283
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781611478327
ISBN-10
1611478324
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price
$44.99
Other format details
university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Music in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates and analyzes the ways in which Fitzgerald integrated music with literature through his entire writing career, from his early Triangle Club lyrics to his later Hollywood screenplays, but most significantly in the novels and short stories for which he is most famous.
Growing up during the first resonating outbursts of popular musicâthe ragtime era and the jazz ageâFitzgerald filled his fiction with popular songs to express the topics, mores, and energy of his times. As the years passed from World War I to the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, these songs brought to his work the varying effects that they had on a mass society: stimulation, romance, nostalgia, and consolation. The songs also contributed to the modernist traits of his style by creating a mixed-media texture and allusive openings to shows or movies in which the songs appeared.
Although popular culture seemed appealing, Fitzgerald constantly worried about how it affected the stature of his works. He carefully distinguished between his popular short stories and his classic novels. But just as songs incorporated popular culture into his works, so other musical qualities, which came to him from classical music by means of poetry, furnished imagery, and structure that enhanced the classic value of his novels.
Even from his later work on screenplays, which he considered a low type of writing, Fitzgerald learned to transform the art and industry of film into fitting material for what could have been his last classic novel, and music provided both popular and classical elements to advance this effort.
Fitzgerald experienced and appreciated the lively new music of his time. In his writing he preserved, organized, and interpreted it for future generations.
Growing up during the first resonating outbursts of popular musicâthe ragtime era and the jazz ageâFitzgerald filled his fiction with popular songs to express the topics, mores, and energy of his times. As the years passed from World War I to the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, these songs brought to his work the varying effects that they had on a mass society: stimulation, romance, nostalgia, and consolation. The songs also contributed to the modernist traits of his style by creating a mixed-media texture and allusive openings to shows or movies in which the songs appeared.
Although popular culture seemed appealing, Fitzgerald constantly worried about how it affected the stature of his works. He carefully distinguished between his popular short stories and his classic novels. But just as songs incorporated popular culture into his works, so other musical qualities, which came to him from classical music by means of poetry, furnished imagery, and structure that enhanced the classic value of his novels.
Even from his later work on screenplays, which he considered a low type of writing, Fitzgerald learned to transform the art and industry of film into fitting material for what could have been his last classic novel, and music provided both popular and classical elements to advance this effort.
Fitzgerald experienced and appreciated the lively new music of his time. In his writing he preserved, organized, and interpreted it for future generations.
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from Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr (September 20, 2013)
9781611475685 | details & prices | 283 pages | 6.25 × 9.30 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $85.00
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Reprint edition from Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr (March 3, 2015)
9781611478327 | details & prices | 283 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $44.99
About: Music in the Works of F.
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