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Remembering Popular Music, Documentary Style

Television & New Media, 2011
Over the past forty years, a growing number of television documentaries have attempted to produce a history of Anglo-American popular music for a wide audience. This article represents an attempt to come to terms with the particularity of the popular music documentary form and the different ways in which these documentaries present themselves as ...
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DOCUMENTARY FILM MUSIC: ROLES, APPROACHES, EFFECTS

2021
The fact that cinema started as a silent cinema in its first period led to the idea that it needed a vocal accompaniment. For this reason, starting from the first movies, music has been used in movie screenings. The soundtrack is one of the main production elements and means of expression of the film in all genres.
TÜRKMEN, Mahmut Yavuz, CERECİ, Sedat
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Musical Discourse in Television Documentaries: Structure and Functions

European Journal of Communication, 1990
This article deals with the possibilities of analysing the extra-musical meaning of popular music in television documentaries. After considering the structure of documentaries and the problems involved in analysing them, attention is paid to analyses of film music by musicologists.
Harry van den Berg, Kees van der Veer
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Semantic Segmentation of Documentary Video using Music Breaks

2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2006
Many documentary videos use background music to help structure the content and communicate the semantic. In this paper, we investigate semantic segmentation of documentary video using music breaks. We first define video semantic units based on the speech text that a video/audio contains, and then propose a three-step procedure for semantic video ...
Aijuan Dong, Honglin Li
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Lagos in contemporary Nigerian music video: Brymo’s “1 Pound (The Documentary)”

Social Dynamics, 2021
Scholarship on the relationship between Lagos and Nigerian cinematic practice often focuses on the video film, emphasising the city’s symbiotic relationship with Nollywood.
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Music and Sound in Documentary Film

2014
This collection of fourteen essays provides a rich and detailed history of the relationship between and music and image in documentary films, exploring the often overlooked role of music in the genre and its subsequent impact on an audience’s perception of reality and fiction.
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Pleyel as Music Publisher:A documentary sourcebook of early 19th-century music

Musicology Australia, 1993
Abstract In Australia the history of the music trades is an underdeveloped area of research, one that is almost completely ignored by musicologists.1 Because of the way Australia was settled, the principal historical background derives chiefly, but not solely, from the British Isles, where, in 1859, Bennet Woodcroft, an engineer and patent agent ...
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Disempowering Music: TheAmandla!Documentary and Other Conservative Musical Projects

Safundi, 2012
Scholars of black South African popular music have established important connections between music and society. Lara Allen’s studies of pennywhistle-kwela, Christopher Ballantine’s research on marabi and African jazz/mbaqanga,and David Coplan’s social history of black city music, among others, have underwritten the new literature in South African ...
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Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South

2022
Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South, edited by Christopher L. Ballengee, represents an important step toward thinking about the production and analysis of the soundscapes of documentary film, all while exploring a range of social, cultural, technological, and theoretical questions relevant to current trends in Global South studies ...
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Tradition and history in Icelandic musical documentaries

Maska. Magazyn Antropologiczno-Społeczno-Kulturowy, 2017
Icelandic music documentaries represent an intriguing evolution of approach to the issues related to the expression of respect for tradition, history and collective memory. National identity for the characters of Friðrik Þór Friðriksson’s Rock in Reykjavik (1981) is a relic of the past and incomprehensible obsession of the older generation. Directed by
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