COUNTRY MUSIC ON SCREEN
The association between country music and film goes back a long way, stretching from hard-hitting dramas to tales of music industry hopefuls, from biopics to sentimental dramas.
In a talk by Chichester Cinema Education Team’s Sandy Guthrie to mark the 50th anniversary of Robert Altman’s ‘Nashville’, he will discuss how country music is deployed in films, highlighting the conventions in the stories of real and fictional country singers, and the ways it symbolises life in a distinct region of the USA, plus its legacy in other countries.
The many clips will focus on the music described in the 1950s by legendary songwriter Harlan Howard as “three chords and the truth”, with the deceptively simple structure and emotive lyrics that have flowed out of Nashville and other hubs across the Southern States for more than a century.
