20th century american film history
20th century animation history
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carl stalling
cartoon opera
cartoons
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classical music
cue sheets
entertainment industry
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film studies
golden age of animation
hollywood animated cartoons
hollywood animation studios
jazz
lantz
mgm
music
music and animation
music studies
musicality
opera
popular music
scott bradley
silly symphonies
swing culture
the fleischers
theatrical cartoons
warner bros
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520253117
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this 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 'Toons" discusses several well-known cartoons in detail, including "What's Opera, Doc?", the 1957 Warner Bros. parody of Wagner and opera that is one of the most popular cartoons ever created. Goldmark pays particular attention to the work of Carl Stalling and Scott Bradley, arguably the two most influential composers of music for theatrical cartoons. Though their musical backgrounds and approaches to scoring differed greatly, Stalling and Bradley together established a unique sound for animated comedies that has not changed in more than seventy years.
Using a rich range of sources including cue sheets, scores, informal interviews, and articles from hard-to-find journals, the author evaluates how music works in an animated universe. Reminding readers of the larger context in which films are produced and viewed, this book looks at how studios employed culturally charged music to inspire their stories and explores the degree to which composers integrated stylistic elements of jazz and the classics into their scores.
Daniel Goldmark is Assistant Professor of Music History at Case Western Reserve University. He is the coeditor of The Cartoon Music Book (2001).
