The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural artefact in documenting stars and icons, and musicians and their times - particularly for those figures whose fame was achieved posthumously.

In this collection of fifteen essays, the reader will find comprehensive discussions of the history of music documentaries, insights in their production and promotion, close studies of documentaries relating to favourite bands or performers, and approaches to questions of music documentary and form, from the celluloid to the digital age.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Series Foreword (p. x)
• Preface (p. xi)
• Acknowledgments (p. xvii)
• Introduction: Music Seen: The Formats and Functions of the Music Documentary (p. 1)
• Part I Evolutions of the Music Documentary (p. 23)
• 1 Tony Palmer's All You Need Is Love: Television's First Pop History (p. 25)
• 2 Retrospective Compilations: (Re)defining the Music Documentary (p. 42)
• 3 Sound and Vision: Radio Documentary, Fandom, and New Participatory Cultures (p. 55)
• Part II Scenes from the Sixties (p. 69)
• 4 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly '60s: The Opposing Gazes of Woodstock and Gimme Shelter (p. 71)
• 5 "Let Your Bullets Fly, My Friend": Jimi Hendrix at Berkeley (p. 87)
• 6 "You Can't Always Get What You Want": Riding on The Medicine Ball Caravan (p. 100)
• Part III Punk Cultures (p. 113)
• 7 No Wave Film and the Music Documentary: From No Wave Cinema "Documents" to Retrospective Documentaries (p. 115)
• 8 The Anxiety of Authenticity: Post-punk Film in the 2000s (p. 131)
• 9 "Every Tongue Brings in a Several Tale": The Filth and the Fury's Counterhistorical Transgressions (p. 141)
• Part IV "Mockumentaries" and "Rockumentaries" (p. 157)
• 10 The Circus is in Town: Rock Mockumentaries and the Carnivalesque (p. 159)
• 11 Visualizing Live Albums: Progressive Rock and the British Concert Film in the 1970s (p. 171)
• Part V New Directions in the Music Documentary (p. 183)
• 12 "Moogie Wonderland": Technology, Modernity, and the Music Documentary (p. 185)
• 13 An Ethnographic Video Project for the Music Classroom (p. 195)
• 14 Mediating The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector: Documenting Monstrosity? (p. 206)
• 15 Desperately Seeking Kylie! Critical Reflections on William Baker's White Diamond (p. 219)
• List of Contributors (p. 235)
• Index (p. 241)