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.
Katherine Spring
(Author)
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