The popular music industry has become completely interlinked with the
film industry. The majority of mainstream films come with ready-attached
songs that may or may not appear in the film but nevertheless will be
used for publicity purposes and appear on a soundtrack album. In many
cases, popular music in films has made for some of the most striking
moments in films and the most dramatic aesthetic action in cinema, like
Ben relaxing in the pool to Simon and Garfunkel's 'The Sound of Silence'
in The Graduate (1967), and the potter's wheel sequence with the Righteous Brothers' 'Unchained Melody' in Ghost (1990).
Yet, to date, there have only been patchy attempts to deal with popular
music's relationship with film. Indeed, it is startling that there is
so little written on subject that is so popular as a consumer item and
thus has a significant cultural profile.
Magical Musical Tour is
the first sustained and focused survey to engage the intersection of
the two on both an aesthetic and industrial level. The chapters are
historically-inspired reviews, discussing many films and musicians,
while others will be more concentrated and detailed case studies of
single films. Including an accompanying website and a timeline giving a
useful snapshot around which readers can orient the book, Kevin Donnelly
explores the history of the intimate bond between film and music, from
the upheaval that rock'n'roll caused in the mid-1950s to the more
technical aspects regarding 'tracking' and 'scoring'.
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