From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a
key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little
serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music.
"Soundtrack Available "fills this gap, as its contributors provide
detailed analyses of individual films as well as historical
overviews of genres, styles of music, and approaches to film
scoring.
With a cross-cultural emphasis, the contributors focus on movies
that use popular songs from a variety of genres, including country,
bubble-gum pop, disco, classical, jazz, swing, French cabaret, and
showtunes. The films discussed range from silents to musicals, from
dramatic and avant-garde films to documentaries in India, France,
England, Australia, and the United States. The essays examine both
"nondiegetic" music in film--the score playing outside the story
space, unheard by the characters, but no less a part of the scene
from the perspective of the audience--and "diegetic" music--music
incorporated into the shared reality of the story and the audience.
They include analyses of music written and performed for films, as
well as the now common practice of scoring a film with pre-existing
songs. By exploring in detail how musical patterns and structures
relate to filmic patterns of narration, character, editing,
framing, and "mise-en-scene," this volume demonstrates that pop
music is a crucial element in the film experience. It also analyzes
the life of the soundtrack apart from the film, tracing how popular
music circulates and acquires new meanings when it becomes an
official soundtrack.
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Contributors. "Rick Altman, Priscilla Barlow, Barbara Ching, Kelley
Conway, Corey Creekmur, Krin Gabbard, Jonathan Gill, Andrew
Killick, Arthur Knight, Adam Knee, Jill Leeper, Neepa Majumdar,
Allison McCracken, Murray Pomerance, Paul Ramaeker, Jeff Smith,
Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Nabeel Zuberi
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