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Archival Projects to screen this week in lab

PTF file and posting to web due byNEXT MONDAY in LECTURE! (PTF on CD/DVD)

ADR Projects: rip in lab this week,(if possible)

work in lab next week! Will demo Vocalign!

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Housekeeping:

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Film Music 1Using Music and Musical Genres vs Pit Music

Note on pop songs in student films (unintentionalassociations)

cinematic appropriations of country musicspower to affirm the purity of the American way

of life (intentional associations)

Pure Country (1992) storyline reconnects viewers tothe American Dream, free of cynicism and corruption.


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Sounding the American Heartcontinued

Counter example: Nashville (1975)-- Altman valorizesfilms ability to provoke critical scrutiny of patrioticcorruption.

Country Music in Nashville is not about purity. RatherHenry Gibsons character is cashing in on the Bicentennial--celebrating blind faith, and denouncing the long hairs. Itsabout Americas enslavement to commercial interests.

For better or worse, both films show country musicstriumph over the cultural and political upheavals of the60s.


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Of the 24 main characters, Opal is the most present--a pompous documentarian from the BBC--unable to seepast her own predjudices, etc--she misses everythingshe sees.

Nashvilles You may say I aint free, but it dont worryme was strangely prophetic: Dont worry, be happy.

In your own films... you could treat the Heartland

ironically, or you could use Hip Hop, urban music...

Sounding the American Heartcontinued


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Music doesnt have one fixed meaning.

Even what a genre of music means depends on how it is

framed.

You can use music inappropriately and say much...

Deploying Musical Genres


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Wagner & Vietnam

Apocalypse Now! use ofThe Doors, and Wagner!?

Chion: On-the-Air Sound (p.76) We see the tape player.Screen music (diegetic) vs. Pit music (non-diegetic) (p.80).

Effective technique to move back and forth from Screen toPit music. (Good Night and Good Luck, Taxi Driver, TrumanShow, American Grafitti)

What are the associations? Why not play Peter, Paul andMary?


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Wagner & Vietnamcontinued

Richard Wagner (1813~1883) highest form of Westernculture.

Code for Facism. Beloved by Hitler, wrote anti-semitic

articles, music banned in Israel.

In Apocalypse Now! Kilgore character is ramming Westernculture down Vietnamese throats (Fascism/Imperialismbelongs to the guys in the helicopters, not to the people on

the ground.)


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Jarhead & Apocalypse Now!

Jarhead is not so much an anti-war war film (likeApocalypse Now!) but a broader critique of these times(like Nashville.)

Same music, different films: (Mis)reading Apocalypse Now!


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Murchs joke...

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