Commentary (1996) - I heard it at the movies
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- magazine article: I heard it at the movies
- author(s): Terry Teachout
- journal: Commentary (01/Nov/1996)
- issue: volume 102, issue 5, page 53
- journal ISSN: 0010-2601
- publisher: Commentary
- keywords: Composers, Motion pictures, Music, Recording industry
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Abstract
Long treated as second-class figures by the musical establishment, film composers have come into their own. The answer to why film music has suddenly become respectable has less to do with aesthetics than with economics.