One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television
- Author: Forman, Murray
[A] recollection and examination of what exactly went into the first days of that ground-breaking marriage between music and television, far before the first episode of 120 Minutes even aired.... — More…
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Contents
- Acknowledgments xi
- Popular Music and the Small Screen Frontier: An Introduction 1
- 1. Music, Image, Labor: Television's Prehistory 17
- 2. "Hey TV!": Musical Pioneers and Pessimists 51
- 3. Harmonizing Genres 115
- 4. The Look of Music 169
- 5. Music in a "Sepia" Tone 231
- 6. Maracas, Congas, and Castanets 273
- Conclusion: Rocking the TV Conventions 319
- Appendix 341
- Notes 343
- Bibliography 363
- Index 389