Big Screen, Little Screen

For baby boomer Americans of the late 1950s, television was taking the place of an evening at the movies. Young families liked the idea of dialing in two or three TV stations and choosing their own entertainment without having to drive into town. And thus it was decreed that television would become...

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Published inHenry Mancini p. 44
Main Author Caps, John
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Illinois Press 03.02.2012
Subjects
American Music
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Arts
Behavioral sciences
Blake Edwards
Commercial music
Cultural anthropology
Cultural studies
Film studies
Henry Mancini
Lip vibrated aerophones
Melody
Movies
Music
Music ensembles
Music genres
Music theory
Musical chords
Musical instruments
Musical motives
Musical performance
Musical pitch
Musical rhythm
musical scoring
Musical time
Performing arts
Peter Gunn
Solos
Television music
television shows
Tonal harmony
Tonal theory
Trombones
Wind instruments
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Summary:For baby boomer Americans of the late 1950s, television was taking the place of an evening at the movies. Young families liked the idea of dialing in two or three TV stations and choosing their own entertainment without having to drive into town. And thus it was decreed that television would become the new assembly line of prepackaged film and entertainment products, albeit in the new short form of the TV series. How ironic, then, that the studio that copied its product line so shamelessly from the mainstream studios—sci-fi tales after Twentieth century Fox’s success, musicals after MGM, cheap
ISBN:0252036735
9780252036736
DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252036736.003.0005