Tunes for 'toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon
Author:Daniel Goldmark
Date published:2005
Publisher:Berkeley: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520236173 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
The author examines the process of creating music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s. Moreover, the author provides an account of the effort that went into setting cartoons to music, and shows how this effort shaped the characters and stories that have become embedded in American culture. Focusing on classical music, opera, and jazz, the author considers the genre and compositional style of cartoons produced by major Hollywood animation studios, including Warner Bros., MGM, Lantz, and the Fleischers. The author pays particular attention to the work of Carl Stalling and Scott Bradley, the two most influential composers of music for theatrical cartoons.