{"product_id":"henry-mancini-reinventing-film-music-hardback-9780252036736","title":"Henry Mancini; Reinventing Film Music (Hardback) 9780252036736","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHenry Mancini\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReinventing Film Music\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Caps (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252036736\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 February 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 27 black and white photograsphs\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Accessible and engaging, this fresh view of Mancini's oeuvre and influence will delight and inform fans of film and popular music.\"--\u003ci\u003eTurner Classic Movies\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Caps' assiduously research study of Mancini's life and career ... is detailed and insightful. . . . It will be enjoyed both by film buffs and music lovers.\"--\u003ci\u003eAllaboutjazz.com\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Will satisfy musically experienced readers as well as laypeople.  It deserves a place in every film and popular music collection.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"A stimulating chronicle of the life and works of film and television composer Henry Mancini. Consistently thorough and detailed, this book contains a considerable wealth of information and insight into this extremely popular composer.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e--James Wierzbicki, author of \u003ci\u003eFilm Music: A History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElliott Carter\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"A well-researched study of a musical career. . . Film by film, the book reveals how Mancini negotiated and compromised to become the computer of many a moviemaker's dreams.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"An important book, and, in many ways, a crucial one, too, it's chief value resting in Caps' articulate championing of one of the most singular compositional talents to emerge from Hollywood's film factory.\"--\u003ci\u003eClassical Music\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \"In this lively, syncopated survey of Mancini's movie music, Caps offers a comprehensive critique of the composer's film\/TV scores and hit albums.\"--Publishers Weekly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThrough film composer Henry Mancini, mere background music in movies became part of pop culture--an expression of sophistication and wit with a modern sense of cool and a lasting lyricism that has not dated. The first comprehensive study of Mancini's music, \u003ci\u003eHenry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music\u003c\/i\u003e describes how the composer served as a bridge between the Big Band period of World War II and the impatient eclecticism of the Baby Boomer generation, between the grand formal orchestral film scores of the past and a modern American minimalist approach. Mancini's sound seemed to capture the bright, confident, welcoming voice of the middle class's new efficient life: interested in pop songs and jazz, in movie and television, in outreach politics but also conventional stay-at-home comforts. As John Caps shows, Mancini easily combined it all in his music.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMancini wielded influence in Hollywood and around the world with his iconic scores: dynamic jazz for the noirish detective TV show \u003ci\u003ePeter Gunn,\u003c\/i\u003e the sly theme from \u003ci\u003eThe Pink Panther,\u003c\/i\u003e and his wistful folk song \"Moon River\" from \u003ci\u003eBreakfast at Tiffany's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Through insightful close readings of key films, Caps traces Mancini's collaborations with important directors and shows how he homed in on specific dramatic or comic aspects of the film to create musical effects through clever instrumentation, eloquent musical gestures, and meaningful resonances and continuities in his scores. Accessible and engaging, this fresh view of Mancini's oeuvre and influence will delight and inform fans of film and popular music.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJohn Caps is an award-winning writer and producer of documentaries. He served as producer, writer, and host for four seasons of the National Public Radio syndicated series \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema Soundtrack,\u003c\/i\u003e featuring interviews with and music of film composers. 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