One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television

One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television
ISBN-10
0822350114
ISBN-13
9780822350118
Category
Music
Pages
405
Language
English
Published
2012-07-04
Publisher
Duke University Press
Author
Murray Forman

Description

Musical performance has been a part of television since the introduction of the medium. The styles and production requirements of music and of television have long influenced the other. Murray Forman gives the history of this interaction, going back to the early years of television, before the broadcast networks, up through the late fifties. He explores the full range of popular music from show tunes to Latin in a wide variety of television programs, and shows how the standards of presentation and performance developed.

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