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This book is about American films from the late sixties and early seventies, how they use music and sound to foreground an imagined engagement with the lived immediacy of experience, and how this experience is related to the idea of the historical past.
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Daniel Bishop is an adjunct assistant professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where he teaches in the Music in General Studies program and the Musicology department. His teaching and research focus on film music and sound.
Summary
This book is about American films from the late sixties and early seventies, how they use music and sound to foreground an imagined engagement with the lived immediacy of experience, and how this experience is related to the idea of the historical past.
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In this engaging and imaginative study, Daniel Bishop approaches films and their mythic aura through seeing their music as a crucial frame for deeper interpretation. Bishop is to be congratulated on this bold and highly illuminating study, which engages and probes the complexities of historical representation in a number of key American films of the 1970s. The discussions are rich, revealing and lively, arguing most convincingly for music's primacy in the films' paradoxical and ambiguous sense of the past.
