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Saying it with songs : popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema / Katherine Spring.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spring, Katherine.
- Series:
- Oxford music/media series.
- The Oxford music/media series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture music--United States--History and criticism.
- Motion picture music.
- Popular music--United States--1921-1930--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- Saying It With Songs is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which Hollywood's conversion to synchronized-sound filmmaking in the late 1920s gave rise not only to enduring partnerships between the film and popular music industries, but also to a rich and exciting period of song use in American cinema.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-984415-1
- OCLC:
- 864551343
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