{"title":"Archetypes in the Archive: Finding ‘South Africa’ in the Production of Dario Marianelli’s Score for Goodbye Bafana","authors":"C. Letcher","doi":"10.1558/JFM.30702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JFM.30702","url":null,"abstract":"Composer Dario Marianelli began the process of scoring Goodbye Bafana (2007), a film that tells the story of Nelson Mandela’s prison life through the eyes of his white gaoler, with several days’ immersion in what he describes as “old field recordings” of southern African music in the British Library Sound Archive. This paper considers Marianelli’s pursuit of a “pure” South African music for the film and closely examines the resulting soundtrack. The asymmetries of marked and unmarked musics, the writing-out of local musical elements in favour of a more generic orchestral film music style, and the signifying properties of reverberation are all explored. I also consider the consequences of a film’s weaknesses, aesthetic and/or political, for its music, and conclude with a constructive example of film music’s dramatic power in transnational cross-cultural music production contexts.","PeriodicalId":201559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Film Music","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132896646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The British Library’s Francis Chagrin Collection: Joining the Dots","authors":"Alexis Bennett","doi":"10.1558/jfm.30700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.30700","url":null,"abstract":"Francis Chagrin (1905–1972), a Romanian who settled in Britain via France, worked on several film scores in the UK from the 1930s through to the 1960s. This paper will assess what the archive of Chagrin papers and audio recordings held by the British Library has contributed to my study of his film scores from the period. I will ask how Chagrin’s work fits in to the general frame of British scores in the period, and how correspondence between the composer and filmmakers enlightens our understanding of the creative process. The work of crossreferencing audio material with archived sketches, scores, and other documents will be explained and interrogated.","PeriodicalId":201559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Film Music","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124838815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industry and Craftsmanship in Popular Cinema: An Initial Exploration of Vassil Kojucharov’s Archive","authors":"A. Bratus","doi":"10.1558/jfm.29828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.29828","url":null,"abstract":"Born in Sofia in 1937, Vassil Kojucharov studied Composition in Moscow with Aram Khachaturian during the late 1950s. At the end of the decade, he moved to Italy where he spent the rest of his professional life as a composer, director and teacher. Even though Kojucharov was not a “big name” in Italian film music production, surveying his personal collection allows us to catch a glimpse of his work on more than fifty films in different popular genres (spaghetti-western, crime, horror, spy, commedia sexy ). Scores, notebooks and tapes provide the starting point to explore his approach to film music, in a negotiation between aesthetic, cultural and industrial issues. These documents provide a fresh perspective on the fragmented, often artisanal, production processes of Italian popular cinema during those decades in which industrial and technological modes of production, such as the modular conception of the soundtrack as a set of independent and reusable elements, self-borrowing, and editing of pre-recorded sounds served the representational conventions of each cinematic genre.","PeriodicalId":201559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Film Music","volume":"204 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132387791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Cooper, I. Sapiro, Laura Anderson, Sarah Hall
{"title":"Digitizing, Organizing and Managing an Audio-Visual Archive: The Trevor Jones Archive at the University of Leeds","authors":"David Cooper, I. Sapiro, Laura Anderson, Sarah Hall","doi":"10.1558/jfm.29827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.29827","url":null,"abstract":"Between 2005 and 2013, film-music composer Trevor Jones donated around 1000 items relating to his film and television scores to the University of Leeds. The collection includes audio and video materials alongside associated paperwork, and some musical sketches and scores. In order to undertake research into the Trevor Jones Archive, the entire collection required digitization and cataloguing, both to facilitate navigation of the materials, and enable understanding of the relationships between them and the processes that they document. This paper considers the practicalities of working with the archive including matters relating to the digitization of a range of analogue and paper-based items, the creation of appropriate metadata and repository structures, and the prioritization of some parts of the collection over others. It is hoped that the lessons learned through this activity highlight some of the issues and considerations of working with archival audio-visual materials, and provide a roadmap for those working with similar collections.","PeriodicalId":201559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Film Music","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130866063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anna Morcom, Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007 [xii, 281 pp. ISBN 9780754651987. $44.95 (paperback)]. SOAS Musicology Series .","authors":"B. Szczepanski","doi":"10.1558/JFM.31222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JFM.31222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Film Music","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128722866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leo Zeitlin, Palestina: An Overture for the Capitol Theatre , New York Edited by Paula Eisenstein Baker and Robert S. Nelson. Middleton, Wisconsin, 2014. [Full score, xix + 59 pp. ISBN 978-0-89579-800-8].","authors":"Aaron Fruchtman","doi":"10.1558/JFM.29636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JFM.29636","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Film Music","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122803708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, The Pioneers of Movie Music: Sounds of the American Silent Cinema Rick Benjamin, director. Liner notes by Rick Benjamin. 2014. New World Records 80761-2.","authors":"Peter Graff","doi":"10.1558/JFM.29683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JFM.29683","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Film Music","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123222070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kathryn Kalinak, ed., Music in the Western: Notes from the Frontier","authors":"M. Durrand","doi":"10.1558/JFM.V6I1.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JFM.V6I1.87","url":null,"abstract":"New York and London: Routledge, 2012. [ix, 237p. ISBN: 9780415882279. $39.99 (trade paper)] Routledge Music and Screen Media Series. Music examples, illustrations, figures, tables, and index.","PeriodicalId":201559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Film Music","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134098256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Michael V. Pisani, Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York","authors":"R. Hickman","doi":"10.1558/JFM.V6I1.90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JFM.V6I1.90","url":null,"abstract":"Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014. [xxvi, 386 (388) p. ISBN: 978-1-60938-230-8. $36.00 (trade paper)] Studies in Theatre History and Culture. Illustrations, figures, musical examples, tables, and index.","PeriodicalId":201559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Film Music","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130733508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archival Research and the Study of the Concert Presentations of Film Music: The Case of John Williams and the Boston Pops","authors":"Emilio Audissino","doi":"10.1558/jfm.30701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.30701","url":null,"abstract":"Film music has increasingly populated the concert programs in the last twenty years. Yet, the presentation of the film-music repertoire in concerts is a corner of the film–music field that has received little scholarly attention. Archival research combined with the study of audio–visual documents in particular is the key to reconstruct the story of the presentation of film music in concerts. As a case study, I present the findings of the research that I conducted in Boston, U.S.A., in 2010 and 2011. Its aim was to demonstrate John Williams's seminal contribution to the legitimization of film music as a viable concert repertoire during his tenure as conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra—“America's orchestra”. The results showed very convincingly that John Williams's association with the most trend–setting and visible orchestra in the U.S.A. has been a major force and a seminal influence for the acceptance of film music as a legitimate concert repertoire.","PeriodicalId":201559,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Film Music","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129653468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}