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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822350114
ISBN-13
9780822350118
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112116610
Product Key Features
Book Title
One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount : Popular Music on Early Television
Number of Pages
424 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Printed Music / Musicals, Film & TV, Television / History & Criticism, Reference, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Performing Arts, History
Book Series
Console-Ing Passions: Television and Cultural Power Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20.7 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2011-041900
Reviews
" One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is an important contribution to the history of TV, popular music, and the relation between television and musical performance. It is clearly well researched, and it includes fascinating information and many delightful tidbits."- Pamela Robertson Wojcik , author of The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945-1975 ., "One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is an impressive industrial and cultural history of the dazzling range of musical performances and genres on early television. Filling a much-neglected area of television studies, Murray Forman focuses not only on network shows but also on regional productions and local stations. His discussion of raced representations provides important new insights into television history, as do his accounts of regional tastes, amateur shows, and the significance of stage settings and nightclub venues."- Lynn Spigel , author of TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television, " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount will be the standard work on music and television in the post-World War II era in the United States. Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Forman's book weaves together the perspectives of musicians, industry outsiders and critics to give us a full picture of cultural change in a key period of media transition. Reading his book, we are witnesses to the break-up of the big bands, the dismantling of the Hollywood system, the rise of network television and the tense politics of race and ethnicity that marked popular American entertainment in the 1940s and 1950s."-Will Straw, author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America, Forman's deft analysis of historical materials amounts to a considerable contribution to our knowledge of postwar American popular culture, and the book's theoretical concerns bring television studies, American studies, and popular music studies into a productive dialogue., " One Night on Television is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is a rich resource. The detailed descriptions of television musical performances and the analysis of such a wide range of archival sources provides a comprehensive account of the emerging practices and processes of television music in the U.S.A: this is valuable to any scholar interested in the history of television, popular music, and music on screen." - Lauren Anderson, Screening the Past, "The historical perspective offered by Murray Forman in One Night On TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is an invaluable collection of programs, musicians, and hosts, placed in a wonderful context of history. In particular, the chapters on the African-American and Latin experiences in television's early days are especially worthwhile to any student of popular culture." - Rock Star Journalist, " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is an impressive industrial and cultural history of the dazzling range of musical performances and genres on early television. Filling a much-neglected area of television studies, Murray Forman focuses not only on network shows but also on regional productions and local stations. His discussion of raced representations provides important new insights into television history, as do his accounts of regional tastes, amateur shows, and the significance of stage settings and nightclub venues."-- Lynn Spigel , author of TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television, " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is an important contribution to the history of TV, popular music, and the relation between television and musical performance. It is clearly well researched, and it includes fascinating information and many delightful tidbits."- Pamela Robertson Wojcik , author of The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975, In One Night on TV , Murray Forman offers an intelligent history of popular music's place on early TV. In the process, he fills a significant gap in our understanding of early television in America.... One Night on TV should be of value to all of those interested in television's most important moment., "[A] recollection and examination of what exactly went into the first days of that ground-breaking marriage between music and television, far before the first episode of 120 Minutes even aired. The book takes an impressively researched look at how much effort went into making sure this combination could even get off the ground, let alone explode into the massive fixture it is today, by focusing on the technological and developmental advancements of the late '40s and early '50s as it related to utilizing this particular form of media." - Colin McGuire, PopMatters, [A] recollection and examination of what exactly went into the first days of that ground-breaking marriage between music and television, far before the first episode of 120 Minutes even aired. The book takes an impressively researched look at how much effort went into making sure this combination could even get off the ground, let alone explode into the massive fixture it is today, by focusing on the technological and developmental advancements of the late '40s and early '50s as it related to utilizing this particular form of media., Forman... provides the best history to date of the incorporation of musical performances into TV programs up to 1955.... One Night on TV reminds modern readers that popular music performances, relatively cheap to produce, were essential to the success and spread of television in its early years., "Unlike so many popular histories of music on television that read like greatest hits surveys of widely remembered shows and moments such as American Bandstand or Elvis Presley's run of variety-show performances in 1956, Forman's book uses the contemporary documentary record as its guide. As a result, the author gives the fullest depiction yet offered of the place of music on television in the years leading up to the advent of rock and roll." - Steve Waksman, Journal of American History, " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is an important contribution to the history of TV, popular music, and the relation between television and musical performance. It is clearly well researched, and it includes fascinating information and many delightful tidbits."-- Pamela Robertson Wojcik , author of The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975, " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is an important contribution to the history of TV, popular music, and the relation between television and musical performance. It is clearly well researched, and it includes fascinating information and many delightful tidbits." Pamela Robertson Wojcik, author of The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is an impressive industrial and cultural history of the dazzling range of musical performances and genres on early television. Filling a much-neglected area of television studies, Murray Forman focuses not only on network shows but also on regional productions and local stations. His discussion of raced representations provides important new insights into television history, as do his accounts of regional tastes, amateur shows, and the significance of stage settings and nightclub venues." Lynn Spigel, author of TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount will be the standard work on post-war U.S. music and television. Murray Forman gives us a full picture of cultural change in a key period of media transition. Reading his book, we witness the breakup of the big bands, the dismantling of the Hollywood system, the rise of network television, and the tense politics of race and ethnicity that marked popular American entertainment in the 1940s and 1950s." Will Straw, author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America, " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is an important contribution to the history of TV, popular music, and the relation between television and musical performance. It is clearly well researched, and it includes fascinating information and many delightful tidbits."-- Pamela Robertson Wojcik , author of The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is an impressive industrial and cultural history of the dazzling range of musical performances and genres on early television. Filling a much-neglected area of television studies, Murray Forman focuses not only on network shows but also on regional productions and local stations. His discussion of raced representations provides important new insights into television history, as do his accounts of regional tastes, amateur shows, and the significance of stage settings and nightclub venues."-- Lynn Spigel , author of TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount will be the standard work on postwar U.S. music and television. Murray Forman gives us a full picture of cultural change in a key period of media transition. Reading his book, we witness the breakup of the big bands, the dismantling of the Hollywood system, the rise of network television, and the tense politics of race and ethnicity that marked popular American entertainment in the 1940s and 1950s."-- Will Straw , author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America " One Night on Television is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is a rich resource. The detailed descriptions of television musical performances and the analysis of such a wide range of archival sources provides a comprehensive account of the emerging practices and processes of television music in the U.S.A: this is valuable to any scholar interested in the history of television, popular music, and music on screen." -- Lauren Anderson Screening the Past "[A] recollection and examination of what exactly went into the first days of that ground-breaking marriage between music and television, far before the first episode of 120 Minutes even aired. The book takes an impressively researched look at how much effort went into making sure this combination could even get off the ground, let alone explode into the massive fixture it is today, by focusing on the technological and developmental advancements of the late ''40s and early ''50s as it related to utilizing this particular form of media." -- Colin McGuire PopMatters "Forman''s deft analysis of historical materials amounts to a considerable contribution to our knowledge of postwar American popular culture, and the book''s theoretical concerns bring television studies, American studies, and popular music studies into a productive dialogue." -- Jacob Smith Journal of American Studies "In One Night on TV , Murray Forman offers an intelligent history of popular music''s place on early TV. In the process, he fills a significant gap in our understanding of early television in America.... One Night on TV should be of value to all of those interested in television''s most important moment." -- JamesL. Baughman Business History Review "[A] fascinating and rich account.... Forman''s study is a welcome contribution to a neglected topic within both popular music and television history. The study offers astute insights on the period from 1930-1955, which are generated from his combination of industrial and cultural history with theoretical reflections and close analysis.... [T]he study significantly redresses numerous orthodoxies in the respective histories of popular music and television." -- Carolyn Birdsall Screen, " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount will be the standard work on postwar U.S. music and television. Murray Forman gives us a full picture of cultural change in a key period of media transition. Reading his book, we witness the breakup of the big bands, the dismantling of the Hollywood system, the rise of network television, and the tense politics of race and ethnicity that marked popular American entertainment in the 1940s and 1950s."-- Will Straw , author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America, [A] fascinating and rich account.... Forman's study is a welcome contribution to a neglected topic within both popular music and television history. The study offers astute insights on the period from 1930-1955, which are generated from his combination of industrial and cultural history with theoretical reflections and close analysis.... [T]he study significantly redresses numerous orthodoxies in the respective histories of popular music and television., One Night on Television is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is a rich resource. The detailed descriptions of television musical performances and the analysis of such a wide range of archival sources provides a comprehensive account of the emerging practices and processes of television music in the U.S.A: this is valuable to any scholar interested in the history of television, popular music, and music on screen., "[A]n easy to read history of how the 'music industry' merged with TV to cross-promote music." - Steve Ramm, In the Groove, " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount is an impressive industrial and cultural history of the dazzling range of musical performances and genres on early television. Filling a much-neglected area of television studies, Murray Forman focuses not only on network shows but also on regional productions and local stations. His discussion of raced representations provides important new insights into television history, as do his accounts of regional tastes, amateur shows, and the significance of stage settings and nightclub venues."- Lynn Spigel , author of TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television, " One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount will be the standard work on postwar U.S. music and television. Murray Forman gives us a full picture of cultural change in a key period of media transition. Reading his book, we witness the breakup of the big bands, the dismantling of the Hollywood system, the rise of network television, and the tense politics of race and ethnicity that marked popular American entertainment in the 1940s and 1950s."- Will Straw , author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
791.45/65780973
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments xi Popular Music and the Small Screen Frontier: An Introduction 1 1. Music, Image, Labor: Television's Prehistory 17 2. "Hey TV!": Musical Pioneers and Pessimists 51 3. Harmonizing Genres 115 4. The Look of Music 169 5. Music in a "Sepia" Tone 231 6. Maracas, Congas, and Castanets 273 Conclusion: Rocking the TV Conventions 319 Appendix 341 Notes 343 Bibliography 363 Index 389
Synopsis
Musical performance has been a part of television since the introduction of the medium. The styles and production requirements of music and of television have long influenced the other. Murray Forman gives the history of this interaction, going back to the early years of television, before the broadcast networks, up through the late fifties. He explores the full range of popular music from show tunes to Latin in a wide variety of television programs, and shows how the standards of presentation and performance developed., Elvis Presley's television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and television came together. Murray Forman challenges that contention, revealing popular music as crucial to television years before Presley's sensational small-screen performances. Drawing on trade and popular journalism, internal television and music industry documents, and records of audience feedback, Forman provides a detailed history of the incorporation of musical performances into TV programming during the medium's formative years, from 1948 to 1955. He examines how executives in the music and television industries understood and responded to the convergence of the two media; how celebrity musicians such as Vaughn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Fred Waring struggled to adjust to television; and how relative unknowns with an intuitive feel for the medium were sometimes catapulted to stardom. Forman argues that early television production influenced the aesthetics of musical performance in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly those of emerging musical styles such as rock and roll. At the same time, popular music helped to shape the nascent medium of television--its technologies, program formats, and industry structures. Popular music performances were essential to the allure and success of TV in its early years.
LC Classification Number
PN1992
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