Saying it with songs : popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema
Title:
Saying it with songs : popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema
Author:
Spring, Katherine.
ISBN:
9780199844159
9780199369584
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 229 pages)
Series:
The Oxford music/media series
Oxford music/media series.
Contents:
Singing a song : the culture and conventions of popular music in the 1920s -- Owning a song : the restructuring of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley -- Plugging a song : the discrete charm of the popular song, from Broadway to Hollywood -- Integrating a song : the threat to narrative plausibility -- Curtailing a song : toward the classical background score.
Abstract:
'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.
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