Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music
With a cross-cultural emphasis, the contributors focus on movies that use popular songs from a variety of genres, including country, bubble-gum pop, disco, classical, jazz, swing, French cabaret, and showtunes. The films discussed range from silents to musicals, from dramatic and avant-garde films to docu- and rockumentaries in India, France, England, Australia, and the United States. The essays examine both "nondiegetic" music in film -- the common practice of having the score play outside the story...