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The music documentary : acid rock to electropop
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<P><EM>The Music Documentary</EM> offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The ...
<P><EM>The Music Documentary</EM> offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural artefact in documenting stars and icons, and musicians and their times - particularly for those figures whose fame was achieved posthumously. </P><P></P><P>In this collection of fifteen essays, the reader will find comprehensive discussions of the history of music documentaries, insights i
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- Creator
- edited by Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, Benjamin Halligan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York, N.Y. ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781136311031, 1136311033, 9780415528023, 041552802X, 9780203118689, 0203118685, 9781136311048, 1136311041, 0415528011, 1299715443
- OCLC
- ocn852758100, ocn852158286
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Cover ; Title Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication ; Table of Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Music Seen: The Formats and Functions of the Music Documentary; Part I: Evolutions of the Music Documentary ; 1 Tony Palmer's All You Need Is Love: Television's First Pop History; 2 Retrospective Compilations: (Re)defining the Music Documentary; 3 Sound and Vision: Radio Documentary, Fandom, and New Participatory Cultures; Part II: Scenes from the Sixties ; 4 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly '60s: The Opposing Gazes of Woodstock and Gimme Shelter
- 5 "Let Your Bullets Fly, My Friend": Jimi Hendrix at Berkeley 6 "You Can't Always Get What You Want": Riding on The Medicine Ball Caravan; Part III: Punk Cultures ; 7 No Wave Film and the Music Documentary: From No Wave Cinema "Documents" to Retrospective Documentaries; 8 The Anxiety of Authenticity: Post-punk Film in the 2000s; 9 "Every Tongue Brings in a Several Tale": The Filth and the Fury's Counterhistorical Transgressions; Part IV: "Mockumentaries" and "Rockumentaries" ; 10 The Circus is in Town: Rock Mockumentaries and the Carnivalesque
- 11 Visualizing Live Albums: Progressive Rock and the British Concert Film in the 1970sPart V: New Directions in the Music Documentary ; 12 "Moogie Wonderland": Technology, Modernity, and the Music Documentary; 13 An Ethnographic Video Project for the Music Classroom; 14 Mediating The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector: Documenting Monstrosity?; 15 Desperately Seeking Kylie! Critical Reflections on William Baker's White Diamond; List of Contributors; Index