Saying It With Songs

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Hollywood's conversion from silent to synchronized sound film production not only instigated the convergence of the film and music industries but also gave rise to an extraordinary period of songs in American cinema. 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. While most scholarship on film music of the period focuses on adaptations of Broadway musicals, this book examines the functions of songs in a variety of non-musical genres, including melodramas, romantic comedies, Westerns, prison dramas, and action-adventure films, and shows how filmmakers tested and refined their approach to songs in order to reconcile the spectacle of song performance, the classical norms of storytelling, and the conventions of background orchestral scoring from the period of silent cinema. Written for film and music scholars alike as well as for general readers, Saying It With Songs illuminates the origins of the popular song score aesthetic of American cinema.

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Genre : Music
Author : Katherine Spring
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Release : 2013-11
File : 245 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780199842223


Say It With Music

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As a boy, Israel Baline had to work after school to help his poor immigrant family. He sold newspapers on street corners to help his family survive. He loved to sing to pass the time, and sometimes listeners tossed an extra penny or two at his feet. No one who heard him could have guessed that he would someday become known as Irving Berlin, the best-loved songwriter in the land. The composer of "God Bless America," "White Christmas," and many other well-known tunes began his musical career on the streets and in the seedy cafes of New York City's Lower East Side. Author Tom Streissguth tells Berlin's remarkable story in lively prose that captures the spirit of the long-gone days of ragtime, vaudeville, and Broadway glory.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : Tom Streissguth
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Release : 2011-08-01
File : 68 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780761382669


Narragansett Ballads With Songs And Lyrics

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Genre : American poetry
Author : Caroline Hazard
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Release : 1894
File : 128 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015063923364


Singers And Songs Of The Church

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Genre : Hymn writers
Author : Josiah Miller
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Release : 1869
File : 676 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HXCZ9Q


Games And Songs Of American Children

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Genre : Children's songs
Author : William Wells Newell
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Release : 1883
File : 270 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000006665678


Poems And Songs

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Genre : English poetry
Author : John Carmichael
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Release : 1882
File : 270 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105004382185


Singers And Songs Of The Liberal Faith

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Genre : Religious poetry, American
Author : Alfred Porter Putnam
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Release : 1875
File : 588 Pages
ISBN-13 : PSU:000004947325


Proceedings Of The Royal Musical Association

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Genre : Music
Author : Royal Musical Association
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Release : 1890
File : 228 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105006673557


The Western

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Release : 1875
File : 930 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015010939646


The Methodist Review

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Genre : Methodist Church
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Release : 1893
File : 1024 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:$B218101