Rock 'n' Film: Cinema's Dance with Popular Music
- ISBN-10
- 0199387591
- ISBN-13
- 9780199387595
- Category
- Motion pictures and rock music
- Pages
- 470
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- David E. James
Description
In the mid-1950s, rock 'n' roll amalgamated earlier black and white working-class musical traditions to displace the Great American Songbook's hegemony over Anglophone popular music. At the same time, the classic musical was both displaced and re-created in a new form of film: the rock 'n' roll musical. For the next two decades, the genre's evolution in the United States and the United Kingdom accompanied and sustained the emergence, flowering, and decay of a counterculture. Cinema was second only to records in the production of the new cultural gestalt that the music generated.
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