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Blackpool in Film and Popular Music

Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030499358

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Blackpool in Film and Popular Music by Ewa Mazierska Pdf

This collection examines Blackpool, Britain’s first and largest working-class seaside resort as a location for the production and consumption of British film and popular music, and the meaning of ‘Blackpool’ in films and songs. It examines representation of Blackpool in films such as Hindle Wakes, A Taste of Honey, Bhaji on the Beach, Away, Bob’s Weekend, The Harry Hill Movie and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, linking it to the concepts of heterotopia, purgatory, fantasy, simulacra and the carnivalesque. It also presents music in Blackpool through the history of its venues and examines development of punk and grime music in this seaside town. The authors argue that Blackpool in filmic and musical texts often stands for British culture, but increasingly for culture which is remembered or imagined rather than present and real.

The North East of England on Film and Television

Author : James Leggott
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030691462

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The North East of England on Film and Television by James Leggott Pdf

This book analyses the representation of North-East England in film and television. It is a response to the way a number of important British films and programmes—for example, Get Carter (1971), Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads (1973-74), Our Friends in the North (1996) and Billy Elliot (2000)—have used this particular setting to explore questions of class, identity and history. It argues for the significance and coherence of a North-East corpus of film and television through a series of case studies relating to specific eras or types of representation. These include regional writers working for television in the 1970s, the achievements of the workshop movement in the 1980s and works produced within the genres of documentary, crime drama, comedy, period drama and reality television. The book discusses how the communities and landscapes of the region have been used to explore processes of cultural change, and legacies of de-industrialisation.

Peripheral Locations in European TV Crime Series

Author : Kim Toft Hansen,Valentina Re
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031418082

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Peripheral Locations in European TV Crime Series by Kim Toft Hansen,Valentina Re Pdf

This book is a comprehensive study of peripheral locations in contemporary European TV crime series. Ambitiously, it covers the complete geography of Europe, and offers a nuanced image of a changing, dynamic, and unfinished continent. The chapters include analyses of the practical, creative approach to producing crime series in European peripheries and rural areas, evaluating a continent marked by an internal crisis between urban and rural Europe. The study includes readings of crime series such as Shetland, Bitter Daisies, Trom, Pagan Peak, and The Border, but presents such representative cases within broader tendencies on the European TV market, including challenges from streaming services, the influence of Nordic Noir, and changes within the cognitive geography of Europe. The authors position peripheral European crime series in a complex relationship between universal appeal and local recognisability and offer a comprehensive theoretical approach to the aesthetics of peripherality. Grounded in desktop production studies, the book presents an original scholarly approach to analysing European crime series from a continental point of view. Despite local differences, the spatio-generic orientations scrutinized in the book – Nordic Noir, Mediterranean Noir, Country Noir, Eastern Noir, and Brit Noir – show remarkable aesthetic similarities in series from territories otherwise normally unconnected in television production. Consequently, television crime series reveal a common tongue and voice for dialogue on a continent in a deepening crisis.

Music Films

Author : Neil Fox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839023460

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Music Films by Neil Fox Pdf

In Music Films, Neil Fox considers a broad range of music documentaries, delving into their cinematic style, political undertones, racial dynamics, and gender representations, in order to assess their role in the cultivation of myth. Combining historical and critical analyses, and drawing on film and music criticism, Fox examines renowned music films such as A Hard Day's Night (1964), Dig! (2004), and Amazing Grace (2006), critically lauded works like Milford Graves Full Mantis (2018) and Mistaken for Strangers (2013), and lesser-studied films including Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959) and Ornette: Made in America (1985). In doing so, he offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, situating these films within their wider cultural contexts and highlighting their formal and thematic innovations. Discussions in the book span topics from concert filmmaking to music production, the music industry, touring, and filmic representations of authenticity and truth. Overall, Music Films traces the evolution of the genre, highlighting its cultural significance and connection to broader societal phenomena.

The British Pop Music Film

Author : S. Glynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780230392236

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The British Pop Music Film by S. Glynn Pdf

The first detailed examination of the place of pop music film in British cinema, Stephen Glynn explores the interpenetration of music and cinema in an economic, social and aesthetic context through case studies ranging from Cliff Richard to The Rolling Stones, and from The Beatles to Plan B.

Popular Music On Screen

Author : John Mundy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719040299

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Popular Music On Screen by John Mundy Pdf

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."

Images of England Through Popular Music

Author : K. Gildart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137384256

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Images of England Through Popular Music by K. Gildart Pdf

Drawing on archival sources and oral testimony, Keith Gildart examines the ways in which popular music played an important role in reflecting and shaping social identities and working-class cultures and - through a focus on rock 'n' roll, rhythm & blues, punk, mod subculture, and glam rock - created a sense of crisis in English society.

Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of 'Consensus'

Author : The Subcultures Network
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317628200

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Youth Culture, Popular Music and the End of 'Consensus' by The Subcultures Network Pdf

This book examines youth cultural responses to the political, economic and socio-cultural changes that affected Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War. In particular, it considers the extent to which elements of youth culture and popular music served to contest the notion of ‘consensus’ that historians and social commentators have suggested served to frame British polity from the late 1940s into the 1970s. The collection argues that aspects of youth culture appear to have revealed notable fault-lines in and across British society and provided alternative perspectives and reactions to the presumptions of mainstream political and cultural opinion in the period. This, perhaps, was most acute in the period leading up to and after the seemingly pivotal moment of Margaret Thatcher’s election to prime minister in 1979. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

Popular Music And Television In Britain

Author : Ian Inglis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317078166

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Popular Music And Television In Britain by Ian Inglis Pdf

Listening to popular music and watching television have become the two most common activities for postwar generations in Britain. From the experiences of programmes like Oh Boy! and Juke Box Jury, to the introduction of 24 hour music video channels, the number and variety of television outputs that consistently make use of popular music, and the importance of the small screen as a principal point of contact between audiences and performers are familiar components of contemporary media operation. Yet there have been few attempts to examine the two activities in tandem, to chart their parallel evolution, to explore the associations that unite them, or to consider the increasingly frequent ways in which the production and consumption of TV and music are linked in theory and in practice. This volume provides an invaluable critical analysis of these, and other, topics in newly-written contributions from some of Britain's leading scholars in the disciplines of television and/or popular music studies. Through a concentration on four main areas in which TV organises and presents popular music - history and heritage; performers and performances; comedy and drama; audiences and territories - the book investigates a diverse range of musical genres and styles, factual and fictional programming, historical and geographical demographics, and the constraints of commerce and technology to provide the first systematic account of the place of popular music on British television.

100 Film Musicals

Author : Douglas Pye,Jim Hillier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844575688

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100 Film Musicals by Douglas Pye,Jim Hillier Pdf

From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting – often in spectacular fashion – the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'. Films like Top Hat and 42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis and On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma!, West Side Story and The Sound of Music were hugely popular, yet were commonly regarded by cultural commentators as trivial and escapist. It was the 1970s before serious study of the Hollywood musical began to change critical attitudes and foster an interest in musical films produced in other cultures. Hollywood musicals have become less common, but the genre persists and both academic interest in and fond nostalgia for the musical shows no signs of abating. 100 Film Musicals provides a stimulating overview of the genre's development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, 100 Film Musicals includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as Moulin Rouge! and High School Musical, demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive.

Lipsynching

Author : Merrie Snell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501352362

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Lipsynching by Merrie Snell Pdf

What does it mean when a singing voice is detached from an originating body through recording? And how does this affect consumers of recorded song? This book examines the practice of lipsynching to pre-recorded song in both professional and vernacular contexts, covering over a century of diverse artistic practices from early cinema through to the current popularity of self-produced internet lipsynching videos. It examines the ways in which we listen to, respond to, and use recorded music, not only as a commodity to be consumed but as a culturally-sophisticated and complex means of identification, a site of projection, introjection, and habitation, and, through this, a means of personal and collective creativity.

The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002

Author : Andy Gregory
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1857431618

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The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 by Andy Gregory Pdf

TheInternational Who's Who in Popular Music 2002offers comprehensive biographical information covering the leading names on all aspects of popular music. It brings together the prominent names in pop music as well as the many emerging personalities in the industry, providing full biographical details on pop, rock, folk, jazz, dance, world and country artists. Over 5,000 biographical entries include major career details, concerts, recordings and compositions, honors and contact addresses. Wherever possible, information is obtained directly from the entrants to ensure accuracy and reliability. Appendices include details of record companies, management companies, agents and promoters. The reference also details publishers, festivals and events and other organizations involved with music.

American Popular Music in Britain's Raj

Author : Bradley Shope
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580465489

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American Popular Music in Britain's Raj by Bradley Shope Pdf

The first systematic study to address the character and scope of American popular music in India during British rule.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 2

Author : John Shepherd,David Horn,Dave Laing,Paul Oliver,Peter Wicke
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847144720

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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 2 by John Shepherd,David Horn,Dave Laing,Paul Oliver,Peter Wicke Pdf

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music Volume 1 provides an overview of media, industry, and technology and its relationship to popular music. In 500 entries by 130 contributors from around the world, the volume explores the topic in two parts: Part I: Social and Cultural Dimensions, covers the social phenomena of relevance to the practice of popular music and Part II: The Industry, covers all aspects of the popular music industry, such as copyright, instrumental manufacture, management and marketing, record corporations, studios, companies, and labels. Entries include bibliographies, discographies and filmographies, and an extensive index is provided.

A Musical Prodigy from South Wales

Author : Andrew Everett MA
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781728397436

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A Musical Prodigy from South Wales by Andrew Everett MA Pdf

Harry Parr-Davies was no more than a name to me until I saw the documentary play about Gracie Fields and realised that the songs Sing as We Go, Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye, Pedro the Fisherman, and I Leave My Heart in an English Garden were all composed by the same man. This set me about discovering more about him. Consulting the internet, I discovered a web-site and even more importantly was given Gabrielle Bell’s CD of Harry’s music covering the styles and sounds of 30’s, 40’s and 50’s I also gathered as many items of second sheetmusi and two vocal scores. After compiling a family genealogy I now start to collate my material into biographical form so I could explore the man and his music set against the times he lived in. I consulted local libraries for Groves and Dictionary of National Biography. Giving more personal detail were the archives in Neath and West Glamorgan Libraries . even more usefully I came across accounts of the 2005 Exhibition in Neath about Harry which Edward Beckerleg had mounted with the help of late Bill Hanks. I contacted them both and they were helpful. Sadly Bill died, but Edwardhas provided with copies of material on the boards he had done for the exhibition. Even more importantly, he posted to me CD’s of Harry’s music covering the styles and sounds of 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. He in addition, sent me a selection of his photographs concerning Harry to use in my book. (see those use in the list below.)