The music documentary : Acid Rock to Electropop / Acid Rock to Electropop edited by Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs and Benjamin Halligan. - xvi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Routledge music and screen media series . - Routledge music and screen media series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Music seen : the formats and functions of the music documentary / Tony Palmer's All you need is love : television's first pop history / Retrospective compilations : (re)defining the music documentary / "Sound and vision" : radio documentary, fandom and new participatory cultures / The good, the bad and the ugly '60s : the opposing gazes of Woodstock and Gimme shelter / "Let your bullets fly, my friend" : Jimi Hendrix at Berkeley / "You can't always get what you want" : riding on The medicine ball caravan / No wave film and the music documentary : from no wave cinema "documents" to retrospective documentaries / The anxiety of authenticity : post-punk in the 2000s / "Every tongue brings in a several tale" : The filth and the fury's counterhistorical transgressions / The circus is in town : rock mockumentaries and the carnivalesque / Visualizing live albums: progressive rock and the British concert film in the 1970s / Moogie wonderland : technology, modernity and the music documentary / An ethnographic video project for the music classroom / Mediating The agony and the ecstasy of Phil Spector : documenting monstrosity? / Desperately seeking Kylie! : critical reflections on William Baker's White diamond / Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs and Benjamin Halligan -- Paul Long and Tim Wall -- Michael Saffle -- Oliver Carter and Sam Coley -- Julie Lobalzo Wright -- Emile Wennekes -- David Sanjek with Benjamin Halligan -- Michael Goddard -- Erich Hertz -- Ailsa Grant Ferguson -- Jeffrey Roessner -- K.J. Donnelly -- Andrew Burke -- Chris L. Ballengee -- Mark Duffett and Jon Hackett -- Sunil Manghani and Keith McDonald.

In this collection of fifteen essays, the reader will find comprehensive discussions of the history of music documentaries, insights in their production and promotion, close studies of documentaries relating to favourite bands or performers, and approaches to questions of music documentary and form, from the celluloid to the digital age.

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Documentary television programs--History and criticism
Musicians in motion pictures
Concert films--History and criticism
Rock films--History and criticism

PN1995.9.D6 / M875 2013

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