Anxiety Muted

American Film Music in a Suburban Age

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by Stanley C. Pelkey II and Anthony Bushard

Type

Studies

Subject

Technique > Music

Keywords

music, United States

Publishing date

2014

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 320 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-19-993617-5

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Book Presentation:
The most familiar entertainment icons and storylines from the 1950s and 60s remain potent signs that continue to resonate within contemporary American society and culture. Both the political Left and Right invoke the events and memories of those decades, celebrating or condemning the competing social forces embodied in and unleashed during those years. In recent decades, the entertainment industry has capitalized on this trend with films and television shows that take a look back on the 1950s and 1960s with a mixture of nostalgia and criticism. Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age explores how the central concerns of the Fifties and Sixties--and resulting treatment in the motion picture media--can be examined and understood through the music of the time period. With its focus on soundtrack and scoring, the book demonstrates that specific television shows and films offer a more nuanced vision of community and conformity than is usually recognized, revealing much about our own current social anxieties.

About the authors:
Stanley C. Pelkey II is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Roberts Wesleyan College. A musicologist and cultural historian, he co-edited Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines (2005). Anthony Bushard is Associate Professor of Music History in the Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the author of Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront: A Film Score Guide (2013).

See the publisher website: Oxford University Press