Magical musical tour : rock and pop in film soundtracks / K.J. Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donnelly, K. J. (Kevin J.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture music--History and criticism.

Motion picture music.

Popular music--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Rock music--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the Southwest Popular and American Culture Association's 2016 Peter C. Rollins Book Award in the category of Film/Television The popular music industry has become completely interlinked with the film industry. The majority of mainstream films come with ready-attached songs that may or may not appear in the film but nevertheless will be used for publicity purposes and appear on a soundtrack album. In many cases, popular music in films has made for some of the most striking moments in films and the most dramatic aesthetic action in cinema, like Ben relaxing in the pool to Simon and Garfunkel's 'The Sound of Silence' in The Graduate (1967), and the potter's wheel sequence with the Righteous Brothers' 'Unchained Melody' in Ghost (1990). Yet, to date, there have only been patchy attempts to deal with popular music's relationship with film. Indeed, it is startling that there is so little written on subject that is so popular as a consumer item and thus has a significant cultural profile. Magical Musical Tour is the first sustained and focused survey to engage the intersection of the two on both an aesthetic and industrial level. The chapters are historically-inspired reviews, discussing many films and musicians, while others will be more concentrated and detailed case studies of single films. Including an accompanying website and a timeline giving a useful snapshot around which readers can orient the book, Kevin Donnelly explores the history of the intimate bond between film and music, from the upheaval that rock'n'roll caused in the mid-1950s to the more technical aspects regarding 'tracking' and 'scoring'

Contents:

Introduction

Beat boom Beatles : A hard day's night and Help!

The psychedelic screen

Obscured by Pink Floyd

The film should be played loud : rockumentary films

Blaxploitation : singing across 110th street

Falling to Earth : Bowie's failed film soundtrack

Cohabitation? The resurgent classical film score and songs in the Batman films

New careers in new towns : rock musicians become film composers

Golden years : 80s and 90s hip song compilation films

Copyright and musical censorship : gangsta rap and bad lieutenant.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501312762

1501312766

9781628920741

1628920742

OCLC:

1106557662