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Article: The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music.
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- Velvet Light Trap
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- September 22, 1999
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by Jeff Smith
There is a scarcity of scholarship on film music, and most existing texts focus mainly on classical symphonic scores, often confining their analyses to theoretical concerns and aesthetic principles. Even less is written on the familiar contemporary trend of pop music film scores and how these developed historically. Into this void comes Jeff Smith's The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music, an economic, historical, and sociological study of the development of popular film music beginning in the 1950s. The book specifically looks at how the pop score emerged out of economic and cultural trends in the recording and film industries and the ...
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