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One night on TV is worth weeks at the Paramount : popular music on early television / Murray Forman.
LIBRA PN1992.8.M87 F67 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forman, Murray, 1959-
- Series:
- Console-ing passions
- Console-ing passions: television and cultural power
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television broadcasting of music--United States--History--20th century.
- Television broadcasting of music.
- Television and music--United States--History--20th century.
- Television and music.
- Popular music--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular music.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Elvis Presley's television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and television came together. Murray Forman challenges that contention, revealing popular music as crucial to television years before Presley's sensational small-screen performances. Drawing on trade and popular journalism, internal television and music industry documents, and records of audience feedback, Forman provides a detailed history of the incorporation of musical performances into TV programming during the medium's formative years, from 1948 to 1955. He examines how executives in the music and television industries understood and responded to the convergence of the two media; how celebrity musician such as Vaughn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Fred Waring struggled to adjust to television; and how relative unknowns with an intuitive feel for the medium were sometimes catapulted to stardom. Forman argues that early television production influenced the aesthetics of musical performance in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly those of emerging musical styles such as rock and roll. At the same time, popular music helped to shape television's technologies, program formats, and industry structures. Popular music performances were essential to the allure and success of TV in its early years. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Popular music and the small screen frontier
- Music, image, labor: televisionSpre-history
- "Hey TV!": musical pioneers and pessimists
- Harmonizing genres
- The look of music
- Music in a sepia tone
- Maracas, congas, and castanets
- Conclusion: rocking the tv conventions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822349983
- 0822349981
- 9780822350118
- 0822350114
- OCLC:
- 757838333
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