{"id":5495,"date":"2018-05-28T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/?p=5495"},"modified":"2019-04-27T20:51:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T18:51:03","slug":"nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/2018\/05\/nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of the Past: Popular Music and Nostalgia in Modern Television Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/272100437?app_id=122963\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Echoes of the Past: Popular Music and Nostalgia\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cNostalgia is a longing for a home that no longer exists or has never existed. Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one\u2019s own fantasy.\u201d Thus writes Svetlana Boym in the book <em>The Future of Nostalgia<\/em>, a book that explores a tendency in modern art and society: how we, as people and artists, look backwards while walking into the future, embracing retro-versions of phenomena that we vaguely remember or only know through media-created images and sounds.&nbsp;This phenomenon is also prevalent in the current TV landscape, where we hear the echoes of the past on the soundtrack- from the subtle musical echoes of the 1980s in <em>Show Me a Hero <\/em>(HBO, 2015) to the overt and prolific uses of period-specific music in shows like <em>The Americans <\/em>(FX, 2013-2018) and <em>Stranger Things <\/em>(Netflix, 2015-). In this audiovisual essay, Andreas Halskov explores the connection between nostalgia and popular music in modern television drama, focusing on a handful of prominent period dramas that are set in the 1980s.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>SPOILER WARNING: The popular music in&nbsp;<i>Stranger Things&nbsp;<\/i>(Netflix, 2015-) is analyzed in this audiovisual essay, which also mentions the ending of the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Facts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Screenplay:&nbsp;Andreas Halskov<\/li><li>Production and editing: Jan Oxholm<\/li><li>For study purposes only.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Excerpts from<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>Stranger Things&nbsp;<\/em>(2015-) \u00a9 Duffer Brothers, Netflix<\/li><li><em>Halt and Catch Fire <\/em>(2014-2017), \u00a9 Cantwell\/Rogers, AMC<\/li><li><em>The Americans <\/em>(2013-2018)&nbsp;\u00a9 Weisberg, FX<\/li><li><em>Show Me a Hero <\/em>(2015), \u00a9 Simon, HBO<\/li><li><em>Terminator 2: Judgment Day <\/em>(1991) \u00a9 Cameron, TriStar\/Live\/Artisan,<\/li><li><em>E.T. &#8211; The Extra-Terrestrial <\/em>(1982), \u00a9 Spielberg, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment<\/li><li><em>St. Elmo\u2019s Fire <\/em>(1985) \u00a9 Schumacher, Image Entertainment<\/li><li><em>Dark <\/em>(2017-) \u00a9 Odar\/Friese, Netflix<\/li><li><em>Miami Vice <\/em>(1984-1990) \u00a9 Mann\/Yerkovich, NBC\/Mill Creek Entertainment.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Boym, Svetlana (2001),&nbsp;<em>The Future of Nostalgia<\/em>. New York: Basic Books.<\/li><li>Gorbman, Claudia (1987),&nbsp;<em>Unheard Melodies<\/em>. Indiana University Press.<\/li><li>Halskov, Andreas (2009), &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/2009-04\/side04_feature1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lad musikken tale<\/a>&#8220;,&nbsp;<em>16:9<\/em>, April.<\/li><li>Langkj\u00e6r, Birger (2000),&nbsp;<em>Den lyttende tilskuer<\/em>. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum.<\/li><li>Smith, Murray (2006), &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/2006-11\/side11_inenglish.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Sound of Sentiment<\/a>&#8220;,&nbsp;<em>16:9<\/em>, November.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO-ESSAY. Referring to modern drama series like <em>Stranger Things<\/em>, <em>The Americans<\/em> and <em>Show Me a Hero<\/em>, Andreas Halskov explores the connections between nostalgia and period-specific popular music, arguing that nostalgic pop- and rock-scores illustrate a tendency in modern society and television. A trend that television networks and on-demand services try to monetize, more or less strategically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16-9.dk\/3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}