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Tunes for 'Toons': Music and the Hollywood Cartoon. By Daniel Goldmark. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. [xviii, 225 p. ISBN 0-520-23617-3. $24.95.] Music examples, index, bibliography, illustrations.
"In brief, fellow composers, Forward March! The world is your oyster, the sky is the limit, and the once lowly and despised slapstick cartoon will be your liberator." So wrote longtime MGM cartoon composer Scott Bradley in a 1941 manifesto entitled "Cartoon Music of the Future" (p. 168). That document, reprinted as an appendix in Daniel Goldmark's book on music and Hollywood animation, is but one of several important and relatively unknown interviews, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Tunes for 'Toons': Music and the Hollywood Cartoon.(Book review)