The Palgrave handbook of music and sound in peak TV / Janet K. Halfyard, Nicholas Reyland, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halfyard, Janet K., 1966- editor.

Reyland, Nicholas W., editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television music.

Television broadcasting--Sound effects.

Television broadcasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlv, 545 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Contents:

Part I: Concepts and Aesthetics. 1: Ostentatious Scoring: Bewitching the Complex TV Audience from The Sopranos to Wednesday; Nicholas Reyland. 2: Engaging Viewers in Peak TV through Music and Sound; David W. R. Brown

3: Music and Memory in Peak TV; S. Andrew Granade

4: Small Screen Silents: Peak TV, Ostentatious Sonic Absence, and the Neo-Silent Aesthetic; Peter Adams

5: Establishing the Musical Epic in Peak TV: Stranger Things (2016-) and Tales From the Loop (2020); Matt Lawson

6: Sounds of Menace: Geo-Immersive Music in Nordic Noirs; Michael Baumgartner

7: Congruous Incongruities?: Scoring the Complexities of the Antihero in Peak TV; David Ireland

Part II: Practices and Production

8: The HBO Musical Effect: Musical Innovation and Transformation in the Era of Peak TV; Janet K. Halfyard

9: The UK's Golden Age of TV Branding: Sky Atlantic, Channel 4, and "Quality" American Imports; Melissa Morton

10: The Musicality of the Voice in Contemporary Television; Miguel Mera

11: An Approach to Scales in Some Twenty-First Century Television Music; Scott Murphy

12: Lost in Transcription?: Captioning Music and Sound in Peak Television; James Deaville

13: Hans Zimmer, Bleeding Fingers, and the Evolution of Library Music; Toby Huelin

14: Peak TV for Kids: Pastiche, Metadiscourse, and the Disney Channel Original Musical; Gregory Camp

15: Queer quality?: Reception, Creative Agency, and Excess in the Soundtracks of Ryan Murphy's Horror Television; Catherine Haworth

Part III: Audiences and Interpretations

16: Scoring Complex Delights and Their Open Ends: Ramin Djawadi's Original Compositions for HBO's Westworld (2016-22); Julin Lee

17: Beyond Nostalgia: Hearing Anachronism in Westworld and Television's New Golden Age; Alexander Kolassa

18: Peak Prostheticity: Westworld's Player Piano and Imperialist Organologies; Naomi Waltham-Smith

19: Cinematic Complexity in Peak TV?: Amazon's Rings of Power and the Musical Extension of an Existing Franchise; Dan White

20: "This [Sounds like] a True Story": Scoring the Heightened Reality of Noah Hawley's Fargo; Amy Bauer

21: The Queen's Gambit and the Three Fantasies of Filmic Media: Image, Narrative, and Sound; Michael L. Klein

22: Notes About Nothing: Seinfeld and the End of the Sitcom Theme Song; Nathan Fleshner

23: I'll Hear You in Twenty-Five Years: Sonic Identifications in Twin Peaks (1990-91) and Twin Peaks: The Return (2017); Reba A. Wissner

24: By (Dis)order of the Peaky Blinders: Trauma and Anachronistic Soundtracking in the Contemporary Period Drama; Natalie Farrell

25: Re-Birthing Britain: Sounding Middlebrow Trauma in BBC's Call the Midwife; Erin Johnson-Williams and Michelle Meinhart.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 8, 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783031629907

3031629906

Publisher Number:

90101165810

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.