Nate Patrin

The Needle and the Lens

Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock 'n' Roll to Synthwave

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Produktbeschreibung

"Tracking the link between film and song through the past fifty years, Nate Patrin reveals the power of music used in movies to move the needle in popular culture. As he surveys the scene-musical and cinematic-across the decades, expanding into the deeper origins, wider connections, and echoed histories that come into play, The Needle and the Lens offers a new way of seeing, and hearing, these iconic soundtrack moments"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781517913243
• ISBN-10: 1517913241
• Artikelnr.: 67787943

Autorenporträt

Nate Patrin is a longtime music critic whose writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including Pitchfork, Stereogum, Spin, Bandcamp Daily, Red Bull Music Academy, and his hometown Twin Cities’ late alt-weekly City Pages. His first book, Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop (Minnesota, 2020), was named a Best Music Book of 2020 by Kirkus and Rolling Stone.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Scorpio Rising, “He’s a Rebel”
The Graduate, “The Sounds of Silence”
Easy Rider, “The Pusher”
The Harder They Come, “Many Rivers to Cross”
American Graffiti, “Do You Want to Dance”
Saturday Night Fever, “Disco Inferno”
Killer of Sheep, “This Bitter Earth”
Apocalypse Now, “The End”
Repo Man, “When the Shit Hits the Fan”
Krush Groove, “King of Rock”
Blue Velvet, “In Dreams”
Wayne’s World, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Jackie Brown, “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time)”
Belly, “Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)”
The Royal Tenenbaums, “Needle in the Hay”
Drive, “A Real Hero”
Outro: Twenty-Four More Great Needle Drops
Acknowledgments
Notes
References