What makes a movie soundtrack great?
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Adele won an Oscar for the James Bond movie theme "Skyfall." Some of the Bond themes are so essential to the films you can't imagine one without the other.
But movie soundtracks serve a lot of different purposes.
Movie maven Stephanie Curtis and film music historian Jon Burlingame join MPR News host Kerri Miller to talk about the use of music in movies.
Some favorites and those mentioned during the segment:
Movie Scores & Soundtracks, a playlist by schoompr on Spotify
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