| Description |
1 online resource (154 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Nonfictions |
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Nonfictions.
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| Contents |
Preface; Introduction: In Praise of Performance; 1 Cool Jazz, Hot Jazz and Hard Bop on a Summer's Day; 2 Wild Guitarists and Spastic Singers: Virtuosic Performance on Film; 3 Direct Cinema, Rock's Public Persona and the Emergence of the Rock Star; 4 Instrumental Technique and Facial Expression On Screen; 5 Independent Cinema Meets Free Jazz: Shirley Clarke's Ornette: Made in America; 6 'I'm Looking at Them and They're Looking at Me': Observation and Communication in Sex Pistols: Live at the Longhorn; Conclusion: Simple Gestures and Smooth Spaces in Robert Cahen's Boulez-Repons |
| Summary |
Playing to the Camera is the first full-length study devoted to the musical performance documentary. Its scope ranges from music education films to punk rock concert films to experimental video art featuring modernist music. Unlike the?music under' produced for movies by anonymous musicians sequestered in recording studios, on-screen?live' performances remind us of the relation between music and the bodies that produce it. Leaving aside analysis of the film score to explore the link between moving images and musical movement as physical gesture, this volume asks why performance has so o |
| Notes |
"A Wallflower book"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Documentary films -- History
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Concert films -- History
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Music.
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Musicians.
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musicians.
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music (discipline)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Concert films
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Documentary films
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Music
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Musicians
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231501804 |
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0231501803 |
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