1st Edition
Shared Meanings in the Film Music of Philip Glass Music, Multimedia and Postminimalism
By Tristian Evans
Copyright 2015
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The study of music within multimedia contexts has become an increasingly active area of scholarly research. However, the application of such studies to musical genres outside the 'classical' film canon, or in television and other media remains largely unexplored in any detail. Tristian Evans demonstrates how postminimal music interacts with other media forms, focusing on the film music by Philip... Read more
Contents: Foreword, Michael Riesman; Introduction; Glass, postminimalism and the media: initial questions and contexts; ’The satisfaction of a drive’: postminimal music and the advertising media; Postmodern unfoldings? Narrative, temporality and repetition in postminimal music; ’Notes on a soundtrack’: reading Glass’s recent film scores; Metamorphic meanings in Glass’s intertextual soundtracks; This is (not) a soundtrack: Dracula the movie or music drama?; Existential conflict in Naqoyqatsi, Book of Longing and Watchmen; Conclusions: reviewing concepts and approaches; Bibliography; Electronic resources; Selected discography; Selected filmography; Artworks; Index.
Biography
Tristian Evans is lecturer in Music at Bangor University, UK. He completed BMus, MA and doctoral studies at Bangor between 2002-10, receiving support from the AHRC’s doctoral programme.
"Recommended"
- J. Behrens, Wolf Museum of Music and Art in CHOICE
"[Evans] offers a refreshing approach to [postminimalism] by revealing the numerous contradictions in the definitions that have appeared and that are part of its historiography.[…] All in all […] I hope it stimulates further work in this subject."
- Rob Haskins, ARSC Journal
