Tunes for Toons

Tunes for  Toons
Author: Daniel Ira Goldmark
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2005-10-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780520941205

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In the first in-depth examination of music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s, Daniel Goldmark provides a brilliant account of the enormous creative effort that went into setting cartoons to music and shows how this effort shaped the characters and stories that have become embedded in American culture. Focusing on classical music, opera, and jazz, Goldmark considers the genre and compositional style of cartoons produced by major Hollywood animation studios, including Warner Bros., MGM, Lantz, and the Fleischers. Tunes for 'Toons discusses several well-known cartoons in detail, including What's Opera, Doc?, the 1957 Warner Bros. parody of Wagner and opera that is one of the most popular cartoons ever created. Goldmark pays particular attention to the work of Carl Stalling and Scott Bradley, arguably the two most influential composers of music for theatrical cartoons. Though their musical backgrounds and approaches to scoring differed greatly, Stalling and Bradley together established a unique sound for animated comedies that has not changed in more than seventy years. Using a rich range of sources including cue sheets, scores, informal interviews, and articles from hard-to-find journals, the author evaluates how music works in an animated universe. Reminding readers of the larger context in which films are produced and viewed, this book looks at how studios employed culturally charged music to inspire their stories and explores the degree to which composers integrated stylistic elements of jazz and the classics into their scores.

The Cartoon Music Book

The Cartoon Music Book
Author: Daniel Goldmark,Yuval Taylor
Publsiher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781569764121

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The popularity of cartoon music, from Carl Stalling's work for Warner Bros. to Disney sound tracks and "The Simpsons"' song parodies, has never been greater. This lively and fascinating look at cartoon music's past and present collects contributions from well-known music critics and cartoonists, and interviews with the principal cartoon composers. Here Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his music for "Rugrats," Alf Clausen about composing for "The Simpsons," Carl Stalling about his work for Walt Disney and Warner Bros., Irwin Chusid about Raymond Scott's work, Will Friedwald about "Casper the Friendly Ghost," Richard Stone about his music for "Animaniacs," Joseph Lanza about "Ren and Stimpy," and much, much more.

Film Genre 2000

Film Genre 2000
Author: Wheeler W. Dixon
Publsiher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2000-02-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0791445135

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New essays by prominent film scholars address recent developments in American genre filmmaking.

That s All Folks

That s All Folks
Author: Steve Schneider
Publsiher: Owl Books
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1990
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0805014853

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Here is the first comprehensive record of the classic Warner Bros. cartoon studio, wonderfully and richly illustrated in full color. "This comic valentine offers impeccable research, interviews wiuth the animated geniuses who breathed life and laughter into their Looney Tunes, and hundreds of rare illustrations".--Time. 225 full-color illustrations. 100 line drawings.

America Toons In

America Toons In
Author: David Perlmutter
Publsiher: McFarland
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2014-03-13
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781476614885

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Animation has been part of television since the start of the medium but it has rarely received unbiased recognition from media scholars. More often, it has been ridiculed for supposedly poor technical quality, accused of trafficking in violence aimed at children, and neglected for indulging in vulgar behavior. These accusations are often made categorically, out of prejudice or ignorance, with little attempt to understand the importance of each program on its own terms. This book takes a serious look at the whole genre of television animation, from the early themes and practices through the evolution of the art to the present day. Examining the productions of individual studios and producers, the author establishes a means of understanding their work in new ways, at the same time discussing the ways in which the genre has often been unfairly marginalized by critics, and how, especially in recent years, producers have both challenged and embraced this “marginality” as a vital part of their work. By taking seriously something often thought to be frivolous, the book provides a framework for understanding the persistent presence of television animation in the American media—and how surprisingly influential it has been.

Toons for Our Times

 Toons for Our Times
Author: Berke Breathed
Publsiher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 95
Release: 1984
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0316107093

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Cartoons deal with computer hackers, personal ads, political campaigns, rock musicians, and toxic waste

The Intersection of Animation Video Games and Music

The Intersection of Animation  Video Games  and Music
Author: Lisa Scoggin,Dana Plank
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2023-04-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781000871067

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In both video games and animated films, worlds are constructed through a combination of animation, which defines what players see on the screen, and music and sound, which provide essential cues to action, emotion, and narrative. This book offers a rich exploration of the intersections between animation, video games, and music and sound, bringing together a range of multidisciplinary lenses. In fourteen chapters, the contributors consider similarities and differences in how music and sound structure video games and animation, as well as the animation within video games, and explore core topics of nostalgia, adaptation, gender and sexuality. Offering fresh insights into the aesthetic interplay of animation, video games, and sound, this volume provides a gateway into new areas of study that will be of interest to scholars and students across musicology, animation studies, game studies, and media studies more broadly.

The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music

The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music
Author: Jane F. Fulcher
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780199711987

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As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the cutting-edge work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music fosters and reflects a sustained dialogue about their shared goals and techniques, rejuvenating their work with new insights into the field itself.