Arguing that filmmaking can be a process of understanding music and that a film can be a way of expressing that understanding, the author examines five music documentary films: Gimme Shelter by Alb
Documentary filmmakers have been making films about music for a half-century. American Music Documentary looks at five key films to begin to imagine how we might produce, edit, and watch films from an
From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in th