Saying It With Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema
- Author: Spring, Katherine
Essential reading for historians of film and popular music. In it, the author combines impressive scholarship with conceptual clarity, making accessible to readers the complex changes that took... — More…
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Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Singing a Song: The Culture and Conventions of Popular Music in the 1920s
- Chapter 2. Owning a Song: The Restructuring of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley
- Chapter 3. Plugging a Song: The Discrete Charm of the Popular Song, From Broadway to Hollywood
- Chapter 4. Integrating a Song: The Threat to Narrative Plausibility
- Chapter 5. Curtailing a Song: Toward the Classical Background Score
- Conclusion: The Fate of the Motion Picture Song
- Appendix 1: Confirmatory License Issued by Music Publishers Protective Association (1929)
- Appendix 2: Tieups of Film and Music as Reported by Variety
- Appendix 3: Timeline of Relationships Between Film and Music Companies
- Appendix 4: Agreement between Al Dubin, The Vitaphone Corp., and Music Publishers Holding Corporation
- Appendix 5: Summary of Agreement between Vitaphone Corporation, M. Witmark & Sons, and Ray Perkins
- Bibliography
- Credits
- Index