Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Easy Listening and Film Scoring 1948-78

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book documents easy listening's connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature.The influence of technology and historical contexts of music for work and leisure are explored. which will fascinate scholars, historians, and students of cinema, television, film scoring, and midcentury popular music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780367760854
• ISBN-10: 0367760851
• Artikelnr.: 67435805

Autorenporträt

Jack Curtis Dubowsky is a composer, author, music editor, educator, and filmmaker. Books include Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness. Dubowsky is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Recording Academy, the Motion Picture Editors Guild, and a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Easy Listening and Film Scoring as Opportunities for
Midcentury Composers and Arrangers
2 Music for Leisure, Music for Work: From a Conceptual Past to the LP,
Stereo, and Multichannel Sound
3 Race and Easy Listening
4 Stylistic Subgenres of Easy Listening: The Cult of Bach, the Harpsichord
Fetish,
and the Baroque
5 The Named and the Nameless: Easy Listening from the Anonymous to the
Beatles
6 Henry Mancini: Songwriter, Star Commodity, Purveyor of Easy Listening
7 Michel Legrand: Le Jazzman et le baroque
8 The Endless Space Age: Easy Listening 1948-78 as Precursor to Musical
Futures