Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-garde

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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 Films 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.