Jon Burlingame

Discussing how Isaac Hayes's 1971 album 'Shaft' was shaped by its time and has influenced music, and culture, for generations to come.

We all know that Americans watch a lot of TV. Former On the Media producer Laura Mayer reports on the role music plays in one of the medium’s most popular genres - reality television.

We all know that Americans watch a lot of TV. On the Media producer Laura Mayer reports on the role music plays in one of the medium’s most popular genres - reality television.

Skyfall opens on November 9th -- and like every good James Bond movie, it has a killer theme song and soundtrack. Film historian Jon Burlingame, whose new book is called The Music of ...

The nominees for the Academy Awards were announced earlier this week. This year's musical picks include only two "best original song" choices - the lowest number ever. And, this year's "best original score" category includes two separate John Williams works - making him the most nominated composer in Oscar history. Jon Burlingame, who writes about film and television music, joins us to talk about who made the cut - and who didn't.

Before Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, we look at this year’s nominees for best original score and best original song. Jon Burlingame, who writes about film and television music for Variety and the Los Angeles Times, gives us his picks in each category.

In many ways, Richard Wagner laid the foundation for cinema's mixture of dramatic sound and moving pictures. Film historian Jon Burlingame helps look at the composer’s influence on Hollywood films.

Soundcheck Smackdown goes Hollywood! Today: music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas, who compiled the hit soundtrack to the new Twilight film New Moon, and Variety film writer Jon Burlingame debate which makes for better movie music: pop music or original score.

Every year, it seems, there are complaints about the Oscars' music branch and the occasionally head-scratching nominees in the song and score Oscar categories. And the winners are anything but predictable. Today, film music historian and Variety writer Jon Burlingame walks us through the various contenders.

From the Hulk to Iron Man to Batman, 2008 is the summer of the superhero movie. And each has a distinctive soundtrack to match. Today, we size up these scores with film music historian and Variety writer Jon Burlingame.

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Jonny Greenwood's score for "There Will Be Blood" has won critical praise, but a technicality disqualifies it from the Oscar race. Today, guests including Jon Burlingame, film music historian and Variety writer, and Daniel Schweiger, soundtrack editor of Filmmusicmag.com, weigh in on the 2008 Best Soundtrack nominees: "Atonement," "The Kite ...

Just as Hollywood's latest crop of Westerns take a revisionist view of frontier life, their musical scores sound incredibly different from those of the classics of the 50s and 60s. Today, we look at the changing sound of the Western with Jon Burlingame, a film music historian who teaches at ...