Today, we can identify a whole repertoire of music films, ranging from straightforward documentaries, concert films (mostly heavily edited), works directly connected to the music industry to promote sales and also the mockumentary, a parody of some of the aforementioned types of movies. But there are distinct features of the music film, depending on the […]
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Extraordinary Records by Giorgio Moroder and Alessandro Benedetti (2024)
The fascination with music on vinyl has never really died, although in the 1980s and 1990s, seemingly the CD and variations of it would take over markets, and finally lead to the replacement of heavy LP shelves in apartments with much smaller and lighter CD shelves. Even though the mastering and audio quality of the […]
Vaudeville Melodies: Popular Musicians and Mass Entertainment in American Culture… by Nicholas Gebha
While in the last part of the 19th century so-called “high art,” opera, theater, classical music and the like were deemed “too good” for the average working audience, these forms of entertainment ended up being controlled by the elite in the US. Controlled namely by those who wanted to solidify their own standing by attending […]