TY - JOUR AU - Gueraud-Pinet, Guylaine PY - 2019/12/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The relationship between music and images in French non-fiction TV programs.: From a media inherited practice to an autonomous one (1949-2015) JF - Journal of Sound, Silence, Image and Technology JA - jossit VL - 1 IS - 2 SE - DO - UR - https://jossit.tecnocampus.cat/index.php/jossit/article/view/13 SP - 66-83 AB - <p>Since the beginning of TV program production<br>in France, pre-existing music has been<br>used more and more frequently in the<br>background of news programs, magazines,<br>or reality shows. Though music in fiction TV<br>programs has been a matter of academic<br>interest since the late 70’s (Tagg, 1979; Frith,<br>2002 and Coates, 2007), non-fiction<br>programs have enjoyed but little attention<br>from the academic world. In a context of<br>socio-cultural and socio-economic change<br>for music and television for 60 years, this<br>article discusses the following questionings:<br>How has the relationship between images<br>and music on TV evolved since 1949? Was it<br>built upon media-inherited techniques or did<br>television media make up their own practices?<br>A statistical analysis has been performed<br>on 140 TV programs broadcast between<br>1949 and 2015 and a music/image classification<br>has been used to test close to 2000<br>extracts from preexisting music tracks. Built<br>upon Roger Bowman (1949) and Ron<br>Rodman’s (2010) proposals on music in<br>fiction TV programs, this classification<br>allows us to adopt a perspective drawing<br>from socio-economic and semiotic approaches.<br>Three time-periods have been<br>identifies : 1950-1980: inherited music<br>integration ; 1980-2000: editorial music<br>integration ; 2000-2015: hyper-contextualized<br>music integration. At first, music was<br>thus used much in the way it had been in<br>other media (space-time contextualization,<br>leitmotiv…). Then, from the 80’s onwards, it<br>started to reflect the editorial policy of the<br>channels, especially the French music<br>channel, M6. Finally, since the 2000’s, even<br>though these aspects remain valid, we have<br>observed the emergence of “hyper-contextualization”<br>processes, where verbatim use<br>of lyrics has become common practice.</p> ER -