Popular Music on Screen
Published on 3. June 1999
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-7190-4028-3 (ISBN)
Description
Popular Music on Screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary developments in music television and video. Through detailed examination of films, television programs and popular music, together with analysis of the economic, technological and cultural determinants of their production and consumption, the book argues that popular music has been increasingly influenced by its visual economy. Though engaging with the debates that surround postmodernism, the book suggests that what most characterizes the relationship between popular music and the screen is a strong sense of continuity, expressed through institutional structures, representational strategies and the ideology of "entertainment." -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-4028-3 (9780719040283)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Overtones and undertones; the emergence of popular music and sound cinema 1890-1927; the popular music tradition and the classical Hollywood musical 1926-1955; Hollywood and the challenge of the youth market from 1955; a very British coda; popular music and the small screen; I want my MTV and movies with music; bibliography; select filmography.