Film scores occupying the middle
Tom's soundtracks poll starts later today, and for the hell of it I'm jotting down some thoughts about one reason I'm looking forward to it. I'm deliberately overstating and simplifying for the sake of clarity, so leaving out my usual thicket of caveats and asides and parentheticals. Bear in mind that modernism kind of throws a spanner into the
( Read more... )
Think it's been fairly common in the last 100 years to disdain the middle while plumping for low and high.* I'm an heir to that kind of attitude, a lot of the time. The thing is, the high and the low eventually become the middle, thanks to all the popularization and to people like me, and there's a constant never-ending churning. Contradictorily I'm also an heir to middlebrow social-do-gooding folk music and TV shows (The Defenders and The Virginian, when I was 10 years old; don't know if they crossed to Britain). And of course faves of mine like the New York Dolls and fave of lots of people David Bowie were head deep in sentimental save-the-childern do-goodery, and good for them.
The BBC show does play here. May take a while for me to get to it though.
Do you mind if I post your comment and this response of mine over on the Dreamwidth version of this entry? Or, if you have a Dreamwidth account of your own you can paste in your comment there and I can reply with this response.
*See Leslie Fiedler's famous defense of comic books, "The Middle Against Both Ends."
Reply
Leave a comment