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       AMERICAN MUSIC DOCUMENTARY

      BENJAMIN J. HARBERT

       American Music Documentary

      FIVE CASE STUDIES OF CINÉ-ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2018 Benjamin J. Harbert

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Typeset in Aller and Arnhem types

      by Tseng Information Systems, Inc.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Harbert, Benjamin J. author.

      Title: American music documentary: five case studies of ciné-ethnomusicology / Benjamin J. Harbert.

      Description: Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2018. | Series: Music/Interview | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Includes filmography. | Identifiers: LCCN 2017036468 (print) | LCCN 2017042746 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819578020 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819578006 (cloth: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780819578013 (pbk.: alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Documentary films—United States—History and criticism. | Motion picture music—United States—History and criticism.

      Classification: LCC PN1995.9.D6 (ebook) | LCC PN1995.9.D6 H295 2018 (print) | DDC 070.1/8—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036468

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      Cover illustration: soundwave © yewkeo/iStockphoto.

       To Marina Goldovskaya

       CONTENTS

       List of Illustrations viii

       Acknowledgments xi

       Introduction 1

       1 Where Is the Music? What Is the Music?

      Albert Maysles, Gimme Shelter (1970) 24

       2 Representing the Margins and Underrepresenting the Real

      Jill Godmilow, Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974) 67

       3 The Use and Abuse of Musicological Concepts

      Shirley Clarke, Ornette: Made in America (1985) 108

       4 The Theater of Mass Culture

      D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Depeche Mode: 101 (1988) 156

       5 Cinematic Dub and the Multitude

      Jem Cohen and Fugazi, Instrument (1999) 200

       Epilogue: Toward a Ciné-Ethnomusicology

       Appendix A: Extended Music Filmography 255

       Appendix B: Cited Interviews and Archival Material 259

       Appendix C: Glossary of Terms: Sounds, Shots, and Editing Techniques 261

       Notes 265

       Works Cited 275

       Index 289

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       1.1. Structure of “Wild Horses” sequence 37

       1.2. Head position matching chord changes and shoulder motion matching plagal cadence 47

       1.3. Unknown to Jagger, a hand from the crowd reaches toward him 55

       1.4. Dancing man becomes concerned 61

       1.5. Man smiles while woman weeps, both moving their heads to the music 63

       2.1. Framing Brico’s anger 81

       2.2. Freeze-frame at end of kitchen sequence 83

       2.3. Juxtaposed spaces of stage and home brought together through performance 88

       3.1. Geodesic dome on top of Caravan of Dreams (still from the film) 114

       3.2. The real Ornette Coleman connects with the “young” Ornette Coleman played by Demon Marshall 122

       3.3. A cut that presents Coleman as if he were watching George Russell talk about Coleman 127

       3.4. Two poles

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