Unusual Sounds The Hidden History of Library Music

In the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood required. Though at the time, the use of such records was mostly a cost-cutting maneuver for productions that couldn't afford to hire their own composer, the industry soon took on its own life: library publishers became major financial successes, and much of the work they released was truly extraordinary. In fact, many of these anonymous or pseudonymous scores-on-demand were crafted by the some of the greatest musical minds of the late 20th century-expert musicians and innovative composers who reveled in the freedoms offered, paradoxically, by this most corporate of fields.

ISBN:	9781944860127
Publisher:	Anthology Editions
Imprint:	Anthology Editions
Published date:	29 May 2018
DEWEY:	781.542
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	331
Weight:	1154g
Height:	206mm
Width:	268mm
Spine width:	28mm

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