Tuning in : American narrative television music /
This work looks at and listens to the first 50 years of American narrative television music as a unique art form. Drawing on music in a wide variety of television genres, author Ronald Rodman develops a new theory of television music to explain how it conveys meaning to American viewing audiences.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Oxford music/media series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : what were musicians saying about television music during the first decade of broadcasting?
- Toward an associative theory of television music
- "Hello out there in TV land" : musical agency in the early television anthology drama
- "And now a word from our sponsor" : musical structure and mediation in early TV commercials
- "Beam me up, Scottie!" : leitmotifs, musical topos, and ascription in the sci-fi drama
- "Go for your guns" : narrative syntax and musical functions in the TV western
- Tube of pleasure, tube of bliss : television music as (not so) drastic experience
- "And now another word from our sponsor" : strategies of occultation and imbuement in musical commercials
- "Just the facts, ma'am" : musical style change and markedness in the police drama
- "The truth is out there" : music in modern/postmodern television.