"This cross-disciplinary collection provides the first comprehensive study of library music practices in the 1960s and 1970s. Library music was inexpensive, off-the-shelf music available to license for a small fee. It was widely used in television and film as a cheaper alternative to commissioned soundtracks. This book addresses questions about creativity, authorship and agency: How and in what conditions were library music tracks written, recorded and disseminated? Why has anonymity traditionally been such an important ...
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"This cross-disciplinary collection provides the first comprehensive study of library music practices in the 1960s and 1970s. Library music was inexpensive, off-the-shelf music available to license for a small fee. It was widely used in television and film as a cheaper alternative to commissioned soundtracks. This book addresses questions about creativity, authorship and agency: How and in what conditions were library music tracks written, recorded and disseminated? Why has anonymity traditionally been such an important aspect of library music? How can we interpret the contemporary revival of library music and the phono-archaeological practices of collectors, reissue record labels, musicians and DJs?"--
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