Tunes For 'Toons Music and the Hollywood Cartoon

Name: Tunes For 'Toons Music and the Hollywood Cartoon
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ISBN: 9780520236172

ISBN-10: 0520236173

ISBN-13: 9780520236172

Edition: 2005

Authors: Daniel Goldmark

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In the first in-depth examination of music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s, Daniel Goldmark provides a brilliant account of the enormous creative effort that went into setting cartoons to music and shows how this effort shaped the characters and stories that have become embedded in American culture. Focusing on classical music, opera, and jazz, Goldmark considers the genre and compositional style of cartoons produced by major Hollywood animation studios, including Warner Bros., MGM, Lantz, and the Fleischers.Tunes for 'Toonsdiscusses several well-known cartoons in detail, includingWhat's Opera, Doc?,the 1957 Warner Bros. parody of Wagner and opera that…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/10/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 243
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Daniel Goldmark Daniel Goldmark is an assistant professor of music at the University of Alabama and for four years was an editor and a producer for Rhino Records; his Tunes for Toons is scheduled to be published in 2003. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Yuval Taylor is the editor of A Cappella; his edited collections include The Future of Jazz and I Was Born a Slave. He lives in Chicago.



List of Illustrations and Tables


List of Music Examples


Acknowledgments


Introduction. Why Cartoon Music?



Carl Stalling and Popular Music in the Warner Bros. Cartoons



"You Really Do Beat the Shit out of That Cat": Scott Bradley's (Violent) Music for MGM



Jungle Jive: Animation, Jazz Music, and Swing Culture



Corny Concertos and Silly Symphonies: Classical Music and Cartoons



What's Opera, Doc? and Cartoon Opera


A Brief Conclusion



Carl Stalling Documents



Scott Bradley Documents


Notes


Bibliography


Index