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Television Genre / Musical Genre / Expressive Genre

Television Genre / Musical Genre / Expressive Genre RON RODMAN Television Genre / Musical Genre / Expressive Genre Here’s the story, of a lovely lady, Who was bringing up three very lovely girls. It’s 1970 in Anytown, USA. You walk over to the television set, pull the on/off button, twist the channel selection knob, adjust the “rabbit ears,” and tune into your favorite situation comedy, The Brady Bunch, a squeaky- clean story of a blended family living in southern California. And you sing along with the catchy opening theme song, which tells the backstory of the show in tune and verse. Now you are ready to enjoy thirty minutes of madcap family fun. Fast forward to 2018. You turn on all three of your remote controls, push the Cbl/Sat button on one remote, and then select the Netflix option for your cable server selections. From the Netflix menu, you select the program The Crown, which you heard was a highly acclaimed docudrama about Queen Elizabeth II. The episode opens not with a singsong jingle about blended families but with a grand, cinema- like opening theme by Hans Zimmer (a renowned film composer). So while you consider press - ing the Skip Intro button to get right to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Music University of Illinois Press

Television Genre / Musical Genre / Expressive Genre

Rodman, Ron
American Music , Volume 37 (4) – Nov 28, 2019
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RON RODMAN Television Genre / Musical Genre / Expressive Genre Here’s the story, of a lovely lady, Who was bringing up three very lovely girls. It’s 1970 in Anytown, USA. You walk over to the television set, pull the on/off button, twist the channel selection knob, adjust the “rabbit ears,” and tune into your favorite situation comedy, The Brady Bunch, a squeaky- clean story of a blended family living in southern California. And you sing along with the catchy opening theme song, which tells the backstory of the show in tune and verse. Now you are ready to enjoy thirty minutes of madcap family fun. Fast forward to 2018. You turn on all three of your remote controls, push the Cbl/Sat button on one remote, and then select the Netflix option for your cable server selections. From the Netflix menu, you select the program The Crown, which you heard was a highly acclaimed docudrama about Queen Elizabeth II. The episode opens not with a singsong jingle about blended families but with a grand, cinema- like opening theme by Hans Zimmer (a renowned film composer). So while you consider press - ing the Skip Intro button to get right to

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Published: Nov 28, 2019

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