The music documentary : acid rock to electropop / / edited by Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, Benjamin Halligan

• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y. ; ; Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 780.26/7
• Soggetto topico: Documentary films - History and criticism; Documentary television programs - History and criticism; Musicians in motion pictures; Concert films - History and criticism; Rock films - History and criticism
• Altri autori: Edgar-HuntRobert Fairclough-IsaacsKirsty HalliganBenjamin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: <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
• Titolo autorizzato: The music documentary
• ISBN: 1-136-31103-3; 0-415-52802-X; 0-203-11868-5; 1-136-31104-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779740303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge music and screen media series.