Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Halfyard, Janet K.; Knights, Vanessa; Attinello, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The intense and continuing popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and depth of the academic critical response. This volume, the first devoted to the show's imaginative and widely varied use of music, sound, and silence, helps to develop an increasingly important and inadequately covered area of research - the many roles of music in contemporary television. In addressing this significant gap, this book provides an exemplary overview of the functions of music and sound in the interpretation of a television show. This is done through analyses that focus on scoring and source music, the title theme, the music production process, the critically acclaimed musical episode (voted number 13 in Channel Four's One Hundred Greatest Musicals), the symbolic and dramatic use of silence, and the popular reception of the show by its international fan base. In keeping with contemporary trends in the study of popular musics, a variety of critical approaches are taken from musicology, cultural studies, and media and communication studies, specifically employing critique, musical analysis, industry studies, and hermeneutics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351557016
• Artikelnr.: 49043896

Autorenporträt

JanetK. Halfyard

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
Keith Negus; Preface
Christophe Beck and John C. King; Introduction: Bay City Rollers. now that's music?: music as cultural code in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Vanessa Knights; Part I Constructing Sound: Music
Noise and Silence: Love
death
curses and reverses (in E minor): music
gender
and identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Janet K. Halfyard; 'What's my melody?' Music and the deployment of genre in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Louis Niebur; Variations on themes for geeks and heroes: leitmotif
style
and the musico-dramatic moment
Rob Haskins; 'What rhymes with lungs?' When music speaks louder than words
Arnie Cox and Rebecca Fÿlöp; Battling the buzz: contesting sonic codes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Katy Stevens; And the rest is silence: silence and death as motifs in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Gerry Bloustein. Part II Owning Music: Bands
Fans and Pop Culture: Bronze things; things of bronze: popular music cultures in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Catherine Driscoll; More than a watcher: Buffy fans
amateur music videos
romantic slash and intermedia
Rob Cover; 'You're just a girl!' Punk rock feminism and the new hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Renée T. Coulombe; Punks
geeks and Goths: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a study of popular music demographics on American commercial television
Kathryn Hill. Part III Making Music: Buffy
the Musical: Not 'the same arrangement': breaking Utopian promises in the Buffy musical
Diana Sandars and Rhonda V. Wilcox. 'Give me something to sing about': intertextuality and the audience in 'Once more with feeling'
Amy Bauer; Rock
television
paper
musicals
scissors: Buffy The Simpsons
and parody
Paul Attinello; Afterword
Anahid Kassabian; Bibliography; Index.