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Improvising the Score : Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz
Title
Improvising the Score : Rethinking Modern Film Music through Jazz / Gretchen L. Carlson.
ISBN
9781496840769
9781496840844
9781496840721
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2022]
Physical Description
1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
"The first book of its kind, Improvising the Score vividly investigates unique collaborations between contemporary jazz artists and influential film directors, providing a behind-the-scenes look at innovative and integrative jazz-film productions that challenge us to rethink the possibilities of movie music. These in-depth case studies include collaborations between Terence Blanchard and Spike Lee (Malcolm X, When the Levees Broke), Dick Hyman and Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters), Antonio Sanchez and Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu (Birdman), and Mark Isham and Alan Rudolph (Afterglow). Grounded in fascinating personal interviews, detailed film production analysis, and examinations of jazz artists' "creative labor" in the context of film production expectations, this book illustrates the dynamic possibilities of integrative artistic collaborations between jazz and film, and more broadly, music and media"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
Introduction. Jazz goes to the movies
When strangers meet : structures, tensions, and negotiations in jazz/film collaborations
"Not a lot of people would go for that" : risk and experimentation in the improvised soundtracks of Birdman and Afterglow
"Honest, true portrayals" : Terence Blanchard, Spike Lee, and the racial politics of jazz scoring
"A film director's dream" : Dick Hyman plays the personal for Woody Allen
Conclusion. Miles ahead : a new way of making movie music?
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