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Before the Music Dies
Andrew Shapter 2005
Categories: Documentary, Feature, Music
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Run time: 95 min. | USA | Language: English
Never have so few companies controlled so much of the music played on the radio and for sale at retail stores. At the same time, there are more bands and more ways to discover their music than ever. Music seems to have split in two - the homogenous corporate product that is spoonfed to consumers and the diverse independent music that finds devoted fans online and at clubs across the country.

BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES tells the story of American music at this precarious moment. Filmmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen traveled the country, hoping to understand why mainstream music seems so packaged and repetitive, and whether corporations really had the power to silence musical innovation. The answers they found on this journey - ultimately, the promise that the future holds - are what makes BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES both riveting and exhilarating.
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Andrew Shapter
 
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Joel Rasmussen
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Rated 5.0/5 Stars
berkokid
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I just didn't have an appreciation for the troubled state of the music industry. The film does a really good job of exploring the evolution of popular music with a combination of entertaining anecdotes (Taylor is gorgeous) and compelling interviews with big-name music stars (?uestlove, Dave Matthews, Eric Clapton, etc.). One of my favorite aspects of this film is that it doesn't come off as whiny. It would have been really easy to 'blame the man' and offer nothing other than complaints. In the case of this film, it remains entertaining and presents a rational look at a difficult situation.
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