American Music Documentary: Five Case Studies of Cine-Ethnomusicology

A critical companion to the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century

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 ethnomusicological point of view. Reconsidering Albert and David Maysles's Gimme Shelter, Jill Godmilow's Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, Shirley Clarke's Ornette: Made in America, D.A. Pennebaker's and C...