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Movies, Music, Star Wars

“Modern fantasy began with the release of George Lucas’s ‘Star Wars’, in 1977, which paid homage to the ‘Flash Gordon’ and ‘Buck Rogers’ serials of the thirties”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 September 2020
Modern fantasy began with the release of George Lucas’s “Star Wars,” in 1977, which...
Tagged Apocalypse Now, Movie, movie music, Richard Wagner, Star Wars |
Movies, Music

“It is an astonishing cultural transformation: the “Ride” remade into an anthem of American supremacy. This displacement is of a piece with other troubling historical continuities of the postwar era: Nazi scientists migrating to America, Gestapo-style torture techniques resurfacing in Iraq, the cult of the sculpted body perpetuating Riefenstahl’s Aryan ideal”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 September 2020
It is an astonishing cultural transformation: the “Ride” remade into an anthem of American...
Tagged Apocalypse Now, Movie, movie music, Ride of the Valkyries |
Movies, Music

“‘Apocalypse’ soon became a military fetish object, its Wagner scene influencing real-life behavior”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 September 2020
The entrance of the main Valkyrie motif coincides with a wide shot of fourteen...
Tagged American invasion of Grenada, Apocalypse Now, Movie, movie music, Ride of the Valkyries |
Movies, Music

“The ‘Ride’ seems a foreordained choice for the helicopter operation in ‘Apocalypse Now'”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 September 2020
For decades before Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now,” aerial warfare had been stirring thoughts of the...
Tagged Apocalypse Now, Movie, movie music, Ride of the Valkyries |
Music

“The New Music Business is…not about capitalizing on hilarious memes, but building relationships with fans”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 November 2017
The New Music Business is not supported by the major record labels. It’s not...
Tagged Music, music industry |
Hip-Hop, Parenthood

“What does it mean to be a hip-hop parent?”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 July 2017
What does it mean to be a hip-hop parent? For me, it means moving...
Tagged Hip-Hop, Parenthood, Parenting |
Music

Yankee Doodle’s “lyrics were venomous”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 July 2017
The lyrics were venomous. “Yankee” was a withering word for a colonist. A “doodle”...
Tagged song, song lyrics, songs, Yankee Doodle |
Music, Star Wars

“I can’t believe ‘Across the Stars’ is in Star Wars – it’s so rich”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 May 2017
I still listen to this piece and I get chills. I can’t believe it’s...
Tagged Across the Stars, Attack of the Clones, Music, Star Wars, Star Wars Music, Star Wars Oxygen |
Movies, Music, Star Wars

“…the parade music at the end [of The Phantom Menace] is ‘The Emperor’s Theme’ in disguise”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 May 2017
“The Emperor’s Theme” shows up, you know, a couple times, so “The Emperor’s Theme”...
Tagged Film, film soundtrack, John Williams, movie soundtrack, Music, soundtrack, Star Wars, Star Wars Oxygen, Star Wars soundtrack, The Emperor's Theme, The Phantom Menace |
Music, Star Wars

Star Wars “is a very, very rich soundtrack”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 March 2017
It is a very, very rich soundtrack; there’s so much going on and it’s...
Tagged Film, film soundtrack, John Williams, movie soundtrack, Music, soundtrack, Star Wars, Star Wars Oxygen, Star Wars soundtrack |
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