American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology

by Benjamin J Harbert

A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century

Documentary filmmakers have been making films about music for a half-century. American Music Documentary looks at five key films to begin to imagine how we might produce, edit, and watch films from an ethnomusicological point of view. Reconsidering Albert and David Maysles's Gimme Shelter, Jill Godmilow's Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, Shirley...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819578010
• ISBN13: 9780819578013
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher