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Author Spring, Katherine.

Title Saying it with songs : popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema / Katherine Spring.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 229 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Oxford music/media series
Oxford music/media series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Singing a song : the culture and conventions of popular music in the 1920s -- Owning a song : the restructuring of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley -- 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.
Summary '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 in a variety of film genres.
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Subject Motion picture music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Motion picture music.
United States.
Popular music -- United States -- 1921-1930 -- History and criticism.
Popular music.
Chronological Term 1921-1930
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Spring, Katherine. Saying it with songs 9780199842216 (DLC) 2013001192 (OCoLC)824120005
ISBN 9780199844159 (electronic book)
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