Saying it with songs : popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema

Title
  1. Saying it with songs : popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema / Katherine Spring.
Published by
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Author
  1. Spring, Katherine.

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Description
  1. xi, 229 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "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 songs 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. While most scholarship on film music of the period focuses on adaptations of Broadway musicals, this book 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 spectacle of song performance, the classical norms of storytelling, and the conventions of background orchestral scoring from the period of silent cinema. Written for film and music scholars alike as well as for general readers, Saying It With Songs illuminates the origins of the popular song score aesthetic of American cinema."--Publisher's description.
Series statement
  1. The Oxford music/media series
Uniform title
  1. Oxford music/media series.
Subject
  1. Popular music
  2. Motion picture music
  3. Popular music > United States > 1921-1930 > History and criticism
  4. United States
  5. Motion picture music > United States > History and criticism
  6. 1921-1930
  7. Criticism, interpretation, etc
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Part one : A context for convergence. Singing a song : the culture and conventions of popular music in the 1920s -- Owning a song : the restructuring of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley -- Part two : Models of song use. 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 -- Conclusion : The fate of the motion picture song -- Appendix 1 : Confirmatory license issued by Music Publishers Protective Association (1929) -- Appendix 2 : "Tie-ups of film and music" as reported by Variety -- Appendix 3 : Timeline of relationships between film and music companies -- Appendix 4 : Agreement between Al Dubin, the Vitaphone Corp., and Music Publishers Holding Corporation -- Appendix 5 : Summary of agreement between Vitaphone Corporation, M. Witmark & Sons, and Ray Perkins.
Call number
  1. JNE 14-15
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
Author
  1. Spring, Katherine.
Title
  1. Saying it with songs : popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema / Katherine Spring.
Publisher
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. The Oxford music/media series
  2. Oxford music/media series.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
Chronological term
  1. 1921-1930
LCCN
  1. 2013001192
Other standard identifier
  1. 9780199842223
ISBN
  1. 9780199842216 (alk. paper)
  2. 0199842213 (alk. paper)
  3. 9780199842223 (alk. paper)
  4. 0199842221 (alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JNE 14-15
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