Introduction -- Beat boom Beatles : A hard day's night and Help! -- The psychedelic screen -- Obscured by Pink Floyd -- The film should be played loud : rockumentary films -- Blaxploitation : singing across 110th street -- Falling to Earth : Bowie's failed film soundtrack -- Cohabitation? The resurgent classical film score and songs in the Batman films -- New careers in new towns : rock musicians become film composers -- Golden years : 80s and 90s hip song compilation films -- Copyright and musical censorship : gangsta rap and bad lieutenant
Summary
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', and the potter's wheel sequence with the Righteous Brothers' 'Unchained Melody' in 'Ghost'. Yet, to date, there have only been patchy attempts to deal with popular music's relationship with film. 'Magical Musical Tour' engages the intersection of the two on both an aesthetic and industrial level
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 20, 2015)
