One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks At the Paramount - Popular Music on Early Television

Informationen zum Autor Murray Forman Klappentext Musical performance has been a part of television since the introduction of the medium. The styles and production requirements of music and of television have long influenced the other. Murray Forman gives the history of this interaction, going back to the early years of television, before the broadcast networks, up through the late fifties. He explores the full range of popular music from show tunes to Latin in a wide variety of television programs, and shows how the standards of presentation and performance developed. Zusammenfassung Explores the full range of popular music from show tunes to Latin in a wide variety of television programs! and shows how the standards of presentation and performance developed Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Popular Music and the Small Screen Frontier: An Introduction 1 1. Music, Image, Labor: Television's Prehistory 17 2. "Hey TV!": Musical Pioneers and Pessimists 51 3. Harmonizing Genres 115 4. The Look of Music 169 5. Music in a "Sepia" Tone 231 6. Maracas, Congas, and Castanets 273 Conclusion: Rocking the TV Conventions 319 Appendix 341 Notes 343 Bibliography 363 Index 389

Product details

• Authors: Murray Forman
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2012
• EAN: 9780822349983
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4998-3
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi; Console-ing Passions; Console-Ing Passions: Televisi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet