The Cartoon Music Book

by Goldmark, Daniel; Taylor, Yuval; Maltin, Leonard

• ISBN13: 9781556524738
• ISBN10: 1556524730
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

The popularity of cartoon music, from Carl Stalling's work for Warner Bros. to Disney sound tracks andThe Simpsons' song parodies, has never been greater. This lively and fascinating look at cartoon music's past and present collects contributions from well-known music critics and cartoonists, and interviews with the principal cartoon composers. Here Mark Mothersbaugh talks about his music forRugrats, Alf Clausen about composing forThe Simpsons, Carl Stalling about his work for Walt Disney and Warner Bros., Irwin Chusid about Raymond Scott's work, Will Friedwald aboutCasper the Friendly Ghost, Richard Stone about his music forAnimaniacs, Joseph Lanza aboutRen and Stimpy, and much, much more.

Author Biography

Daniel Goldmark is an assistant professor of music at the University of Alabama and for four years was an editor and producer for Rhino Records; his Tunes for ’Toons is scheduled to be published in 2003. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Yuval Taylor is the editor of A Cappella; his edited collections include The Future of Jazz and I Was Born a Slave. He lives in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Main Title
Untitled	p. 3
Tunes for Toons: A Cartoon Music Primer	p. 5
An Episodic History of Cartoon Music
Animated Cartoons and Slap-Stick Comedy	p. 17
Make Walt's Music: Music for Disney Animation, 1928-1967	p. 21
An Interview with Carl Stalling	p. 37
Hidey Hidey Hidey Ho ... Boop-Boop-A Doop! The Fleischer Studio and Jazz Cartoons	p. 61
I Love to Hear a Minstrel Band: Walt Disney's The Band Concert	p. 67
Disney, Stokowski, and the Genius of Fantasia	p. 73
Music and the Animated Cartoon	p. 93
Classical Music and Hollywood Cartoons: A Primer on the Cartoon Canon	p. 103
Music in Cartoons	p. 115
Personality on the Sound Track: A Glimpse Behind the Scenes and Sequences in Filmland	p. 121
Make Mine Music and the End of the Swing Era	p. 125
Sublime Perversity: The Music of Carl Stalling	p. 137
Carl Stalling, Improviser & Bill Lava, Acme Minimalist	p. 141
Raymond Scott: Accidental Music for Animated Mayhem	p. 151
Winston Sharples and the "Inner Casper" (or Huey Has Two Mommies)	p. 161
An Interview with Hoyt Curtin	p. 169
Rock 'n' Roll Cartoons	p. 173
"Put One Note in Front of the Other": The Music of Maury Laws	p. 193
Cartoon Music Today
Merrie Melodies: Cartoon Music's Contemporary Resurgence	p. 203
An Interview with Mark Mothersbaugh	p. 207
Robots, Romance, and Ronin: Music in Japanese Anime	p. 219
An Interview with Richard Stone, Steve Bernstein, and Julie Bernstein	p. 225
An Interview with Alf Clausen	p. 239
I Kid Because I Love: The Music of The Simpsons	p. 253
An Interview with John Zorn	p. 263
Rhapsody in Spew: Romantic Underscores in The Ren & Stimpy Show	p. 269
Untitled	p. 275
End Title
A Very Visual Kind of Music: The Cartoon Soundtrack Beyond the Screen	p. 279
Cartoon Music: A Select Discography	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 299
About the Contributors	p. 307
Index	p. 311
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