Ten Little Title Tunes : Towards A Musicology Of The Mass Media
Clarida, Robert – Tagg, Philip
SUMARIO. // Part 1. Background, theory and method. / The rise of musical absolutism / The decline of musical absolutism / Method and procedure. // Part 2. The tunes. The dream of Olwen, classical romance and Mother Nature / The Virginian, life, liberty and the U.S. pursuit of happiness / Monty Python’s Flying circus (‘Liberty bell) / Romeo & Juliet, love, longing and loneliness / Sportsnight, speed, normality and television / Emmerdale Farm, Pastorality as it always has been / Sayonara, pentatonicism and pastures / A Streetcar named desire, minor key jazz and all that crime / Deep purple: owed to g, drugs ‘n’ crime ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll / Miami vice, synthesised fashion for the eighties. // Part 3. So what? Title tune gender and ideology.
Ten Little Title Tunes : Towards A Musicology Of The Mass Media
Clarida, Robert – Tagg, Philip
SUMARIO. // Part 1. Background, theory and method. / The rise of musical absolutism / The decline of musical absolutism / Method and procedure. // Part 2. The tunes. The dream of Olwen, classical romance and Mother Nature / The Virginian, life, liberty and the U.S. pursuit of happiness / Monty Python’s Flying circus (‘Liberty bell) / Romeo & Juliet, love, longing and loneliness / Sportsnight, speed, normality and television / Emmerdale Farm, Pastorality as it always has been / Sayonara, pentatonicism and pastures / A Streetcar named desire, minor key jazz and all that crime / Deep purple: owed to g, drugs ‘n’ crime ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll / Miami vice, synthesised fashion for the eighties. // Part 3. So what? Title tune gender and ideology.
