Music, sound and silence in Buffy the vampire slayer. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Paul Attinello, Janet K. Halfyard, Vanessa Knights.
• Editors: Attinello, Paul Gregory; Halfyard, Janet K, 1966-; Knights, Vanessa
• Contents: 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 Fülöp ; 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 Bloustien -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 278 pages), illustrations, music
• Subjects: 781.5/46; Television music -- History and criticism; Television music; Muziekpsychologie; TV-serier; Musik; Tv-musik; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351557023; 1351557025
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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