In the second volume of his extensive study of crime and spy movie jazz, author Bang devotes his archive and knowledge to the years 1971 to 2019. His strategy” of presenting these scores changes a bit in the present volume, as even though in the early 1970s movies were still shown in movie theaters almost […]
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Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen 1950-1970: A History and Discography by Derrick Bang (2020)
The brief period of American sound film until roughly the mid-1940s was dominated by soundtracks and extradiegetic audio based on mostly sweet string orchestras, allusions to classical compositions and ballads. Then, in the 1950s and 60s, soundtrack composers increasingly used popular music of the decades before for police/detective/spy action productions, which would be in large […]