From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a
key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious
writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music. Soundtrack Available fills
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.
With a cross-cultural emphasis, the
contributors focus on movies that use popular songs from a variety of
genres, including country, bubble-gum pop, disco, classical, jazz,
swing, French cabaret, and showtunes. The films discussed range from
silents to musicals, from dramatic and avant-garde films to
documentaries in India, France, England, Australia, and the United
States. The essays examine both “nondiegetic” music in film—the score
playing outside the story space, unheard by the characters, but no less a
part of the scene from the perspective of the audience—and “diegetic”
music—music incorporated into the shared reality of the story and the
audience. They include analyses of music written and performed for
films, as well as the now common practice of scoring a film with
pre-existing songs. By exploring in detail how musical patterns and
structures relate to filmic patterns of narration, character, editing,
framing, and mise-en-scene,
this volume demonstrates that pop music is a crucial element in the
film experience. It also analyzes the life of the soundtrack apart from
the film, tracing how popular music circulates and acquires new meanings
when it becomes an official soundtrack.
Contributors. Rick
Altman, Priscilla Barlow, Barbara Ching, Kelley Conway, Corey Creekmur,
Krin Gabbard, Jonathan Gill, Andrew Killick, Arthur Knight, Adam Knee,
Jill Leeper, Neepa Majumdar, Allison McCracken, Murray Pomerance, Paul
Ramaeker, Jeff Smith, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Nabeel Zuberi
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