cinema m e d i a a r t m u s i c
Folk, Rock & Pop within the Cinema 1 Days of Wine & Roses 1967 – Blake Edwards (USA) Lounge pop Composer Henry Mancini; inebriation & subjective states; symbolism through musical arrangement 2 Do The Right Thing 1987 – Spike Lee (USA) Americana folk Composer Bill Lee; black landscapes; musicological appropriation; harmonic reclaimation 3 O Brother Where Art Thou? 2000 – Joel & Ethan Coen (USA) Blues & bluegrass Various traditonal songs & recordings; meta-rhythms in folk cycles; race & music technologies; musical anthropology and cinematic mythology 4 The Pawnbroker 1965 – Sidney Lumet (USA) Polyglottic jazz Composer Quincy Jones; the imploded city; musical miscegenation 5 Shaft 1971 – Gordon Parks Jr (USA) Funk & soul Composer Issac Hayes; the city grid and rhythmic patterns; race implications in ‘chase music’; song scoring 6 Wild Angels 1966 – Roger Corman (USA) Rock - group Composer Mike Curb / Davie Allen & the Arrows; primitive electricity; the sound of rock; motor mechanisms 7 Dead Man 1995 – Jim Jarmusch (USA) Rock - solo Composer Neil Young; rebirthing ‘silent cinema’ music; electricity and mystic lore; solo instrumentation and mythic being 8 Rumblefish 1982 – Francis Ford Coppola (USA) Art rock Composer Stewart Copeland; clock time and temporization; percussivity; internal biorhythms 9 Resident Evil 2002 – Paul Anderson (Germany) Electronic beats Composer Marco Baltrami; dissolution of atmosphere; player/user musical dramatics; sonarization of space 10 Patlabor 3 2002 – Fumihiko Takayama (Japan) Electronic ambient Composer Kenji Kawai; liquefied sensations in music; tectonic frequencies; harmonic displacement
Folk, Rock & Pop within the Cinema
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