Texts, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll

IF 0.2 1区 艺术学 0 MUSIC JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGY Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI:10.1525/jm.2021.38.3.296
J. Lee
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Abstract

Of all the New Hollywood films, Easy Rider (1969) perhaps most effectively demonstrates the potential complexity of the rock compilation soundtrack. Drawing on concepts from film studies, film musicology, and literary theory, this article discusses how Easy Rider demonstrates the compilation soundtrack’s potential to generate meanings both inter- and intratextually. The intertextual method of interpreting pop compilation soundtracks looks deeply into the intersection of image, sound, and narrative on a vertical axis, considering the relationship between dialogue/image/plot point and song lyrics/musical style, the ways that the songs on these soundtracks communicate to audiences the thematic or diegetic significance of a given moment, and how these synthetic meanings apply to various characters/situations in the diegesis. Intratextual readings work horizontally to show the cyclical relationships between audiovisual set-pieces and the ways that these relationships clarify or enhance narrative themes. Attention to the intratextual function shows that despite the frequent concern that popular songs can disrupt the integrity of a filmic narrative, popular music soundtracks can in fact feature their own modes of large-scale, structural function. This film’s soundtrack allows viewers to experience Easy Rider in dual registers; narrative threads connect to other narrative threads, musical set-pieces connect to musical set-pieces, and all of the elements together comprise one audiovisual complex.
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短信、毒品和摇滚乐
在所有新好莱坞电影中,《逍遥骑士》(1969)可能最有效地展示了摇滚配乐的潜在复杂性。本文借鉴了电影研究、电影音乐学和文学理论的概念,讨论了《逍遥骑士》如何展示了合集原声带在文本间和文本内产生意义的潜力。解读流行音乐合集配乐的互文方法在垂直轴上深入研究图像、声音和叙事的交叉点,考虑对话/图像/情节点与歌词/音乐风格之间的关系,这些配乐中的歌曲向观众传达特定时刻的主题或叙事意义的方式,以及这些综合意义如何应用于叙事中的各种角色/情境。文本内阅读横向工作,以显示视听片段之间的周期性关系,以及这些关系阐明或加强叙事主题的方式。对文本内功能的关注表明,尽管人们经常担心流行歌曲会破坏电影叙事的完整性,但流行音乐配乐实际上可以表现出自己的大规模结构功能模式。这部电影的原声让观众在双重音域中体验《逍遥骑士》;叙事线索与其他叙事线索相连,音乐片段与音乐片段相连,所有元素共同构成一个视听综合体。
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期刊介绍: The widely-respected Journal of Musicology enters its third decade as one of few comprehensive peer-reviewed journals in the discipline, offering articles in every period, field and methodology of musicological scholarship. Its contributors range from senior scholars to new voices in the field. Its reach is international, with recent articles by authors from North America, Europe and Australia, and circulation to individuals and libraries throughout the world.
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