Preface by David Blake, Introduction by Manfred Grabs, Editor's Note, 32 Essays by Hanns Eisler: 1. On Old and New Music, 2. Satirical Aphorisms, 3. On the Situation in Modern Music, 4. Progress in the Workers' Music Movement, 5. The Builders of a New Music Culture, 6. Our Revolutionary Music, 7. Blast-Furnace Music, 8. Music for Workers' Orchestras, 9. Address to a Solidarity Concert, 10. Letter to Ernst Hermann Meyer, 11. On Schoenberg, 12. The Birth of the Worker's Song, 13. A Musical Journey through America, 14. Problems of Working-Class Music, 15. Hollywood Seen from the Left, 16. Some Remarks on the Situation of the Modern Composer, 17. The Crisis in Music, 18. From My Practical Work, 19. Letter to Bertolt Brecht, 20. On a Concert for the International Brigade in Spain, 21. Labor, Labor Movement and Music, 22. Fantasia in G-men, 23. Basic Social Questions of Modern Music, 24. Thoughts on the Anniversary of Beethoven's Death, 25. Bertolt Brecht and Music, 26. On Good Listening, 27. Song Born to Struggle, 28. I Once Knew a Headwaiter, 29. On Stupidity in Music, 30. America's War of Independence - Indirect Aggression, 31. Schweik and German Militarism, 32. Thoughts on Form and Content, Chronology
