This paper analyses and examines film music and soundtracks using the example of selected categories of popular genres of Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. The focus of interpretative interest is the trans-genre, sociocultural and industrial meanings and discourses of Italian film music as an integral part of popular culture at the time when soundtracks gained new importance as Italian popular culture was transforming. The article interprets the new compositional methods of Italian film composers, the cultural and industrial relationship between music labels and film production companies and especially the popular cultural connections of film music with particular popular genres of Italian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. It also takes into account the 1950s, 1980s and 1990s. There is an emphasis on the categories of popular genres, such as “western all'italiana” (Italian/Spaghetti Westerns), “erotico all'italiana” (Italian erotic films) and “musicarello all'italiana” (Italian musical films), that were part of the main industrial discourse of Italian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s.
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This study examines the creative position and role of the music composer and conductor Ennio Morricone in the socio-cultural and industrial context of Italian film industry in the period of the 1960s and 1970s. Using an interdisciplinary approach to this theme, the text in particular explores the link between popular genres of Italian cinema in this historical period and Morricone’s film music and soundtracks. This study analyses music styles, genres and levels that the composer used in his compositions for popular genres such as western all'italiana (western in the Italian style), spionaggio all'italiana (spy film in the Italian style), guerra all'italiana (war film in the Italian style), giallo all'italiana (detective film in the Italian style) or poliziesco all'italiana (police film in the Italian style). These and also other genre categories of Italian cinema represented new models and variations of popular spectacle that were meant for international distribution. This industrial factor was one of the reasons for the growing global popularity of Morricone’s soundtracks because most Italian popular films produced in this period had a great success with the audience.
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