Sold: “PICTURE SHOW PLAYLIST: Pop Music in Film from the Crystals to Rihanna” by Nate Patrin

Delighted to announce our sale of the second book by my agency client, music writer Nate Patrin. As a follow-up to his stellar debut, BRING THAT BEAT BACK: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop, a Rolling Stone best music book of 2020, published by the University of Minnesota Press, Nate will be writing about music in film in a series of linked essays on eighteen movies for the PICTURE SHOW PLAYLIST: Pop Music in Film from the Crystals to Rihanna. In addition to the music and movie pairings noted in the adjacent Deal Report that’s running today in PublishersMarketplace, he’ll also be  covering these examples of pop music in movies:

• John Coltrane, “A Love Supreme” — Mo’ Better Blues
• The Delfonics, “Didn’t I Blow Your Mind This Time” — Jackie Brown
• Talking Heads, “The Big Country” — 20th Century Women
• Simon & Garfunkel, “The Sounds of Silence” — The Graduate
• The Doors, “The End” — Apocalypse Now
• Steppenwolf, “The Pusher”—Easy Rider
• Jimmy Cliff, “Many Rivers to Cross” — The Harder They ComeI’m excited for Nate, whose first book received splendid reviews like this one: “A deeply informed, eminently readable account of a facet of pop music as complex as it is commonly underestimated.”—Music Books of 2020, on the Rough Trade music store blog.

The cover of Nate Patrin’s first book Bring that Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop (University of Minnesota Press, 2020)