Music For Prime Time

Author : Jon Burlingame
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780190618308

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Music for Prime Time by Jon Burlingame Pdf

With hundreds of interviews conducted over a 35-year span, this book is the most comprehensive history of television scoring to date. Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly series, were fondly remembered but not considered much more culturally significant than commercial jingles. Yet noted composers like John Williams, Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith and Lalo Schifrin learned and/or honed their craft in television before going on to major success in feature films. Oscar-winning film composers like Bernard Herrmann, Franz Waxman and Maurice Jarre wrote hours of music for television projects, and such high-profile jazz figures as Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and Quincy Jones also contributed music to TV series. Concert-hall luminaries from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, and theater writers from Jerome Moross to Richard Rodgers, penned memorable scores for TV. Music for Prime Time is the first serious, journalistic history of music for American television. It is the product of 35 years of research and more than 450 interviews with composers, orchestrators, producers, editors and musicians active in the field. Based on, but vastly expanded and revised from, an earlier book by the same author, this wide-ranging narrative not only tells the backstory of every great TV theme but also examines the many neglected and frequently underrated orchestral and jazz compositions for television dating back to the late 1940s. Covering every series genre (crime, comedy, drama, westerns, action-adventure, fantasy and sci-fi), it also looks at music for animated series, news and documentary programming, TV-movies and miniseries, and how music for television has evolved in the era of cable and streaming options. It is the most comprehensive history of television scoring ever published.

Author : Jane Fonda
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400066971

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Prime Time by Jane Fonda Pdf

The Oscar-winning actress, fitness expert and political activist outlines a roadmap for seniors who are experiencing unprecedented rates of longevity, sharing practical advice on everything from fitness and sexuality to coming to terms with past mistakes and embracing a spiritual life.

Author : Pete Croatto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781982103972

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From Hang Time to Prime Time by Pete Croatto Pdf

Perfect for fans of Moneyball and The Book of Basketball, this vivid, thoroughly entertaining, and well-researched book explores the NBA’s surge in popularity in the 1970s and 1980s and its transformation into a global cultural institution. Far beyond simply being a sports league, the NBA has become an entertainment and pop culture juggernaut. From all kinds of team logo merchandise to officially branded video games and players crossing over into reality television, film, fashion lines, and more, there is an inseparable line between sports and entertainment. But only four decades ago, this would have been unthinkable. Featuring writing that leaps off the page with energy and wit, journalist and basketball fan Pete Croatto takes us behind the scenes to the meetings that lead to the monumental American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger in 1976, revolutionizing the NBA’s image. He pays homage to legendary talents including Julius “Dr. J” Erving, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan and reveals how two polar-opposite rookies, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, led game attendance to skyrocket and racial lines to dissolve. Croatto also dives into CBS’s personality-driven coverage of key players, as well as other cable television efforts, which launched NBA players into unprecedented celebrity status. Essential reading whether you’re a casual or longtime fan, From Hang Time to Prime Time is an enthralling and entertaining celebration of basketball history.

Author : Jon Burlingame
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199863303

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The Music of James Bond by Jon Burlingame Pdf

Chronicles all the behind-the-scenes stories of every song and score written for the James Bond films and draws from new interviews with many of the songwriters and composers.

Author : Donald F. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Adolescent psychology
ISBN : PURD:32754073714853

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Substance Use in Popular Music Videos by Donald F. Roberts Pdf

Author : Simon Broughton,Mark Ellingham,Richard Trillo
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 1858286360

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World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific by Simon Broughton,Mark Ellingham,Richard Trillo Pdf

The Rough Guide to World Musicwas published for the first time in 1994 and became the definitive reference. Six years on, the subject has become too big for one book- hence this new two-volume edition. World Music 2- Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacifichas full coverage of everything from salsa and merengue to qawwali and gamelan, and biographies of artists from Juan Luis Guerra to The Klezmatics to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Features include more than 80 articles from expert contributors, focusing on the popular and roots music to be seen and heard, both live and on disc, and extensive discographies for each country, with biography-notes on nearly 2000 musicians and reviews of their best available CDs. It includes photos and album cover illustrations which have been gathered from contemporary and archive sources, many of them unique to this book, and directories of World Music labels, specialist stores around the world and on the internet.

Author : H. Stephen Wright
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810848929

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Film Music at the Piano by H. Stephen Wright Pdf

Printed versions of instrumental film scores can be quite difficult to find, and in many cases the arrangements cited in this book are the only available printed manifestations. The text presents virtually every major film composer, including Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Hermann, Jerry Goldsmith, and John Williams."

Author : James Deaville
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136826368

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Music in Television by James Deaville Pdf

Music in Television is a collection of essays examining television’s production of meaning through music in terms of historical contexts, institutional frameworks, broadcast practices, technologies, and aesthetics. It presents the reader with overviews of major genres and issues, as well as specific case studies of important television programs and events. With contributions from a wide range of scholars, the essays range from historical-analytical surveys of TV sound and genre designations to studies of the music in individual programs, including South Park and Dr. Who.

Author : Jon Burlingame
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Television music
ISBN : 0028703243

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TV's Biggest Hits by Jon Burlingame Pdf

Everybody loves TV themes - from the silly "Mr. Ed" and "The Addams Family" to the intense "Mission: Impossible" and "Peter Gunn" to the atmospheric "Hill Street Blues" and "The X-Files". But few people know how this music is made, or the stories of the men and women who have worked tirelessly (and often anonymously) to create it. This book offers the complete story of this important musical style, giving it the serious, and colorfully anecdotal, history it deserves. Divided into chapters on each genre, Burlingame provides the real stories of the composers who worked behind the scenes to create the memorable music we all love. Among those who have written and performed for television include many famous musicians - like jazz pianists Dave Brubeck and Duke Ellington, arranger/producer Quincy Jones, film music giant John Williams, Broadway composer Richard Rodgers, and classical composer Morton Gould. Illustrated throughout with rare photos of the composers at work, this is a fascinating story of how a new genre of musical artistry was created.

Author : Carolyn S. Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415380577

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Japanese Popular Music by Carolyn S. Stevens Pdf

Japanese popular culture has been steadily increasing in visibility both in Asia and beyond in recent years. This book examines Japanese popular music, exploring its historical development, technology, business and production aspects, audiences, and language and culture. Based both on extensive textual and aural analysis, and on anthropological fieldwork, it provides a wealth of detail, finding differences as well as similarities between the Japanese and Western pop music scenes. Carolyn Stevens shows how Japanese popular music has responded over time to Japan's relationship to the West in the post-war era, gradually growing in independence from the political and cultural hegemonic presence of America. Similarly, the volume explores the ways in which the Japanese artist has grown in independence vis-à-vis his/her role in the production process, and examines in detail the increasingly important role of the jimusho, or the entertainment management agency, where many individual artists and music industry professionals make decisions about how the product is delivered to the public. It also discusses the connections to Japanese television, film, print and internet, thereby providing through pop music a key to understanding much of Japanese popular culture more widely.

Author : Shoma Munshi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136516207

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Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television by Shoma Munshi Pdf

This book focuses on ‘urban family soaps’ on television and analyses them as an important resource for anthropological insights into contemporary social issues and practices. It studies the ‘popular’ and ‘everyday’ while also concentrating on the middle class.

Author : Hugh Dauncey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351553698

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Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno by Hugh Dauncey Pdf

In France during the 1960s and 1970s, popular music became a key component of socio-cultural modernisation as the music/record industry became increasingly important in both economic and cultural terms in response to demographic changes and the rise of the modern media. As France began questioning traditional ways of understanding politics and culture before and after May 1968, music as popular culture became an integral part of burgeoning media activity. Press, radio and television developed free from de Gaulle's state domination of information, and political activism shifted its concerns to the use of regional languages and regional cultures, including the safeguard of traditional popular music against the centralising tendencies of the Republican state. The cultural and political significance of French music was again revealed in the 1990s, as French-language music became a highly visible example of France's quest to maintain her cultural 'exceptionalism' in the face of the perceived globalising hegemony of English and US business and cultural imperialism. Laws were passed instituting minimum quotas of French-language music. The 1980s and 1990s witnessed developing issues raised by new technologies, as compact discs, the minitel telematics system, the internet and other innovations in radio and television broadcasting posed new challenges to musicians and the music industry. These trends and developments are the subject of this volume of essays by leading scholars across a range of disciplines including French studies, musicology, cultural and media studies and film studies. It constitutes the first attempt to provide a complete and up-to-date overview of the place of popular music in modern France and the reception of French popular music abroad.

Author : Lawrence Joseph,Dan Lander,Bill Smith
Publisher : Charivari Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781895166040

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Music Is Rapid Transportation by Lawrence Joseph,Dan Lander,Bill Smith Pdf

A truly alternative look at music lists, not one that merely includes the obvious but shows the connections of popular music to the avant garde, the obscure, the experimental, the quirky, and the adventurous, this edition leads the curious reader towards new musical experiences hitherto unknown to them.

Author : Lori A. Burns,Stan Hawkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501342349

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis by Lori A. Burns,Stan Hawkins Pdf

Music videos promote popular artists in cultural forms that circulate widely across social media networks. With the advent of YouTube in 2005 and the proliferation of handheld technologies and social networking sites, the music video has become available to millions worldwide, and continues to serve as a fertile platform for the debate of issues and themes in popular culture. This volume of essays serves as a foundational handbook for the study and interpretation of the popular music video, with the specific aim of examining the industry contexts, cultural concepts, and aesthetic materials that videos rely upon in order to be both intelligible and meaningful. Easily accessible to viewers in everyday life, music videos offer profound cultural interventions and negotiations while traversing a range of media forms. From a variety of unique perspectives, the contributors to this volume undertake discussions that open up new avenues for exploring the creative changes and developments in music video production. With chapters that address music video authorship, distribution, cultural representations, mediations, aesthetics, and discourses, this study signals a major initiative to provide a deeper understanding of the intersecting and interdisciplinary approaches that are invoked in the analysis of this popular and influential musical form.

Author : Fouli T. Papageorgiou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313029318

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Whose Master's Voice? by Fouli T. Papageorgiou Pdf

What are the interactions between transnational communication and national cultures? This work attempts to answer this critical question in the study of culture and communication. It takes as its vehicle of study the music industry and music making in 13 different cultures, presenting an insider's view of a global cultural experience. Of interest to musicologists and sociologists alike, plus anyone fascinated by distant cultures and how they are affected by external as well as internal communication systems. The chapters are a collection of research findings produced for the International Communications and Youth Cultures Consortium (ICYC), an informal group of international scholars in many disciplines who are committed to understanding the economic and social factors that influence cultures and youth. Their point of view in this work is their individual country and the tensions that arise from the development of international communication systems. Each view is from inside the country; external influences are not subjects of study in themselves but are viewed as part of a complex scene along with other variables operating in various national situations.