SOUNDTRACKY: SOCIOKULTURNÍ FENOMÉN NA POMEZÍ HUDEBNÍHO A FILMOVÉHO PRŮMYSLU. FILMOVÁ HUDBA K POPULÁRNÍM ŽÁNRŮM V ITALSKÉ KINEMATOGRAFII 60. – 70. LET

This paper analyses and examines film music and soundtracks using the example of selected categories of popular genres of Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. The focus of interpretative interest is the trans-genre, sociocultural and industrial meanings and discourses of Italian film music as an integral part of popular culture at the time when soundtracks gained new importance as Italian popular culture was transforming. The article interprets the new compositional methods of Italian film composers, the cultural and industrial relationship between music labels and film production companies and especially the popular cultural connections of film music with particular popular genres of Italian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. It also takes into account the 1950s, 1980s and 1990s. There is an emphasis on the categories of popular genres, such as “western all'italiana” (Italian/Spaghetti Westerns), “erotico all'italiana” (Italian erotic films) and “musicarello all'italiana” (Italian musical films), that were part of the main industrial discourse of Italian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s.