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Saying It With Songs - Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema (Paperback)
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Saying It With Songs - Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Music/Media Series
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In the late 1920s, Hollywood's conversion from silent to
synchronized-sound film production not only instigated the
convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to
an extraordinary period of song use in American cinema. Saying It
With Songs considers how the increasing interdependence of
Hollywood studios and Tin Pan Alley music publishing firms
influenced the commercial and narrative functions of popular songs
in a variety of film genres. Whereas most scholarship on film music
of the period focuses on adaptations of Broadway musicals, Saying
It With Songs examines the functions of songs in a variety of
non-musical genres, including melodramas, romantic comedies,
Westerns, prison dramas, and action-adventure films, and shows how
filmmakers tested and refined their approach to songs in order to
reconcile the tension produced by three competing forces: the
spectacle of song performance, the classical norms of storytelling,
and the established conventions of background orchestral scoring
inherited from the period of silent cinema. By 1931, a so-called
"song glut" led the studios to curtail their use of popular music
in favor of a growing alternative - the classical film score - but
popular songs continued to fulfill critical functions of narration
in Hollywood films of subsequent decades. Written in language
accessible to film and music scholars as well as general readers,
Saying It With Songs illuminates the seminal origins of the popular
song score aesthetic of American cinema.
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