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The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock ''n'' Roll to Synthwave

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By (author): Nate Patrin

How the creative use of pop music in filmthink Saturday Night Fever or Apocalypse Nowhas shaped and shifted music history since the 1960s

Quick: What movie do you think of when you hear The Sounds of Silence? Better yet, what song comes to mind when you think of The Graduate? The link between film and song endures as more than a memory, Nate Patrin suggests with this wide-ranging and energetic book. It is, in fact, a sort of cultural symbiosis that has mutually influenced movies and pop music, a phenomenon Patrin tracks through the past fifty years, revealing the power of music in movies to move the needle in popular culture. 

 

Rock n roll, reggae, R&B, jazz, techno, and hip-hop: each had its momentor manyas music deployed in movies emerged as a form of interpretive commentary, making way for the legitimization of pop and rock music as art forms worthy of serious consideration. These commentaries run the gamut from comedic irony to cheap-thrills excitement to deeply felt drama, all of which Patrin examines in pairings such as American Graffiti and Do You Want to Dance?;  Saturday Night Fever and Disco Inferno; Apocalypse Now and The End; Waynes World and Bohemian Rhapsody; and Jackie Brown and Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time?. 

 

What gives power to these individual moments, and how have they shaped and shifted music history, recasting source material or even stirring wider interest in previously niche pop genres? As Patrin surveys the scenemusical and cinematicacross the decades, expanding into the deeper origins, wider connections, and echoed histories that come into play, The Needle and the Lens offers a new way of seeing, and hearing, these iconic soundtrack moments.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 368g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Nov 2023
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781517913243

About Nate Patrin

Nate Patrin is a longtime music critic whose writing has appeared in dozens of publications including Pitchfork Stereogum Spin Bandcamp Daily Red Bull Music Academy and his hometown Twin Cities late alt-weekly City Pages. His first book Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop (Minnesota 2020) was named a Best Music Book of 2020 by Kirkus and Rolling Stone.

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