ABSTRACT
The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural artefact in documenting stars and icons, and musicians and their times – particularly for those figures whose fame was achieved posthumously.
In this collection of fifteen essays, the reader will find comprehensive discussions of the history of music documentaries, insights in their production and promotion, close studies of documentaries relating to favourite bands or performers, and approaches to questions of music documentary and form, from the celluloid to the digital age.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |45 pages
Evolutions of the Music Documentary
part |44 pages
Scenes from the Sixties
chapter |16 pages
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ′60s
part |44 pages
Punk Cultures
chapter |16 pages
No Wave Film and the Music Documentary
chapter |16 pages
“Every Tongue Brings in a Several Tale”
part |26 pages
“Mockumentaries” and “Rockumentaries”
part |52 pages
New Directions in the Music Documentary