Is there a word for this?

DiscoStu

Is there a specific word for putting modern music in a programme/film set in the past?

Watching Peaky Blinders which is set in 1919 Birmingham but they juxtapose a lot of modern Nick Cave over the top of it. Just wondering if this technique has its own name?

ICBM

Anachronistic

DiscoStu

Aye, that would do it.

Deijavoo

Strangely does my head in. Like the intro to Boardwalk Empire or recent Game of Thrones trailers. Then again, it only seems to be specific ones that bother me..

By the way, I love Nick Cave and have Peaky Blinders on my Sky box. 

See, another example of my double standards.

stickyfiddle

Annoying? It depends on the musical style a bit, anything classical-sounding, even if composed recently, is ok in historical stuff for me, but I can't get trough Chariots of Fire without laughing at the ridiculous 80s synths.

EricTheWeary

Between the title and the incidental music it's probably quite rare to find film or television music that is 100% accurate to the time and period for any historical drama. The music of 1919 Birmingham would have been probably some Irish folk music, an organ grinder and an early line up of The Move...

xSkarloey

ICBM said:

Anachronistic

There's that. 

I also think it can come across as rather affected and inappropriate. IMO you've got to be very, very careful in what you choose, let me put it that way. 

I think that period-appropriate recorded music can be very atmospheric. I once heard a radio drama set in Mussolini-days Italy. I couldn't tell you for the life of me what the songs were, or who was singing them, but they were all Italian tunes of the era, and all chosen fittingly when there was a time lapse/ change of mood etc. Really evocative.