{"product_id":"soundtrack-available-9780822327974","title":"Soundtrack Available","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. This title aims to fill 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSoundtrack Available\u003c\/i\u003e represents a great leap forward in the analysis of film soundtracks. It is a smart, lively book that moves nicely between the detailed analysis of individual cases and broader, theoretical issues. The editors are to be commended for a collection which covers so many historical periods and national cinemas, and for staking out exciting new directions for scholarship. At the same time, this is a compelling, refreshingly jargon-free read for the non-specialist interested in film, music, or media.”—Will Straw, McGill University\u003cbr\u003e“From Bollywood to Hollywood, Wim Wenders to Wong Kar-Wai, popular music permeates movies. Rigorous scholarship has finally begun to catch up with this phenomenon to make sense of its rich and varied cultural meanings. Wocjik’s and Knight’s first-rate collection is muscular, theoretically informed, historically textured, and full of exciting discoveries for all interested in the confluence of pop music, film, and identity.”—Claudia Gorbman, University of Washington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Overture \/ Arthur Knight and Pamela Robertson Wojcik \u003cbr\u003e I. Popular vs. “Serious” \u003cbr\u003e Cinema and Popular Song: The Lost Tradition \/ Rick Altman \u003cbr\u003e Surreal Symphonies: “\u003ci\u003eL’Age d’or\u003c\/i\u003e and the Discreet Charms of Classical Music \/ Priscilla Barlow \u003cbr\u003e “The Future’s Not Ours to See”: Song, Singer, and Labryinth in Hitchcock’s \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Knew Too Much \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Murray Pomerance \u003cbr\u003e “You Think They Call Us Plastic \u003ci\u003eNow . . . “: \u003c\/i\u003eThe Monkees and \u003ci\u003eHead\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Paul B. Ramaeker \u003cbr\u003e II. Singing Stars \u003cbr\u003e Real Men Don’t Sing Ballads: The Radio Crooner in Hollywood, 1929–1933 \/ Allison McCracken \u003cbr\u003e Flower of the Asphalt: The \u003ci\u003eChanteuse Realiste\u003c\/i\u003e in 1930s French Cinema \/ Kelley Conway \u003cbr\u003e The Embodied Voice: Song Sequences and Stardom in Popular Hindi Cinema \/ Neepa Majumdar \u003cbr\u003e III. Music as Ethnic Marker \u003cbr\u003e Music as Ethnic Marker in Film: The “Jewish” Case \/ Andrew P. Killick \u003cbr\u003e Sounding the American Heart: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Contemporary American Film \/ Barbara Ching \u003cbr\u003e Crossing Musical Borders: The Soundtrack for \u003ci\u003eTouch of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Jill Leeper \u003cbr\u003e Documented\/Documentary Asians: Gurinder Chadha’s \u003ci\u003eI’m British But . . .\u003c\/i\u003e and the Musical Mediation of Sonic and Visual Identities \/ Nabeel Zuberi \u003cbr\u003e IV. African American Identities \u003cbr\u003e Class Swings: Music, Race, and Social Mobility in \u003ci\u003eBroken Strings\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Adam Knee \u003cbr\u003e Borrowing Black Masculinity: The Role of Johnny Hartman in \u003ci\u003eThe Bridges of Madison County\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Krin Gabbard \u003cbr\u003e V. Case Study: Porgy and Bess \u003cbr\u003e It Ain’t Necessarily So That It Ain’t Necessarily So: African American Recordings of \u003ci\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/i\u003e as Film and Cultural Criticism \/ Arthur Knight \u003cbr\u003e “Hollywood Has Taken On a New Color”: The Yiddish Blackface of Samuel Goldwyn’s \u003ci\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Jonathan Gill \u003cbr\u003e VI. Contemporary Compilations \u003cbr\u003e Picturizing American Cinema: Hindi Film Songs and the Last Days of Genre \/ Corey K. Creekmur \u003cbr\u003e Popular Songs and Comic Allusion in Contemporary Cinema \/ Jeff Smith \u003cbr\u003e VII. Gender and Technology \u003cbr\u003e The Girl and the Phonograph; or the Vamp and the Machine Revisited \/ Pamela Robertson Wojcik \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406028841303,"sku":"9780822327974","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822327974.jpg?v=1730494296","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/soundtrack-available-9780822327974","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}