Music Films

Neil Fox is Associate Professor of Film Practice and Pedagogy at Falmouth University, UK. He leads the Research & Innovation programme, Pedagogy Futures, and convenes the Sound/Image Cinema Lab. He is an award-winning screenwriter whose short films and feature debut Wilderness (2017) have played to festival audiences around the globe. He is the co-founder and host of the leading film podcast The Cinematologists, the official podcast partner of the BFI national film seasons. He is the co-editor of Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media (2018).

• Foreword by Gruff RhysIntroductionI Form and Feel1. ‘What Should I Say?’ – Milestones and Innovations2. ‘We’ll try for a groove’ – Music Making and the Careers of MusiciansII Politics and Place3. ‘Secret Black Technologies’ – Black Music4. ‘Wherever we are, we are’ – Place5. ‘I just have to deal with it’ – WomenIII Performativity and Performance6. ‘Fuck continuity’ – Truth and Myth7. ‘Walk on stage and fucking ‘ave it’ – Concert and Tour FilmsEndnotes – Omissions, Alternative Histories and Further WatchingReferencesFilmographyIndex

Music Films is authoritative and yet thoroughly accessible (including its simultaneous – and affordable – paperback release). It adds a wealth of new titles to the music film ‘canon’, showing how increased platforms for funding and exhibition have facilitated a contemporary cinematic ‘golden age’. In short, Music Films hits the right notes.