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This completely revised, updated, and expanded edition of Jon Burlingame's 1996 classic book covers themes not touched upon in the original version. With hundreds of interviews conducted over a 35-year span, this book is the most comprehensive history of television scoring to date.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1. "Hi-yo, Silver!": The Birth of TV Music
- 2. "Book 'em, Danno": Cop and Detective Shows
- 3. "Head 'em up! Move 'em out!" The Westerns
- 4. "You are traveling through another dimension": Fantasy and Science Fiction
- 5. "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity": Drama
- 6. "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale": Comedy
- 7. "Your mission, should you decide to accept it": Action-Adventure
- 8. "You are there": Documentaries, News and Information Programming
- 9. "Flintstones! Meet the Flintstones!" Cartoons in Prime Time
- 10. "My name is Kunta Kinte": Made-for-TV Movies and Miniseries
- 11. "Mrs. Peel, we're needed": British shows aired in the U.S.
- 12. "I couldn't possibly comment": Music in contemporary television
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography/Sources
- Photo Credits
- Index
About the author
Jon Burlingame is one of the nation's leading writers on the subject of music for films and television. He writes regularly for Variety and has also written for
The New York Times,
Los Angeles Times,
Washington Post,
The Hollywood Reporter and
Premiere magazine. He teaches film-music history at the University of Southern California, hosts the "For Scores" podcast, and is the author of five books including the best-selling and Deems Taylor Award-winning
The Music of James Bond.
Summary
This completely revised, updated, and expanded edition of Jon Burlingame's 1996 classic book covers themes not touched upon in the original version. With hundreds of interviews conducted over a 35-year span, this book is the most comprehensive history of television scoring to date.
Additional text
In Music for Prime Time--rich with insight, detail, and information--Burlingame demonstrates that the world of television music is rife with opportunities for further research. This book is a welcome and indispensable first entry in an area of research that will continue to grow exponentially in the decades to come.
