Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde

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Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde is written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0786451661 (ISBN 10) and 9780786451661 (ISBN 13).

Music in film is often dismissed as having little cultural significance. While Hammer Film Productions is famous for such classic films as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein, few observers have noted the innovative music that Hammer distinctively incorporated into its horror films. This book tells how Hammer commissioned composers at the cutting edge of European musical modernism to write their movie scores, introducing the avant-garde into popular culture via the enormously successful venue of horror film. Each chapter addresses a specific category of the avant-garde musical movement. According to these categories, chapters elaborate upon the visionary composers who made the horror film soundtrack a melting pot of opposing musical cultures.