Siren city : sound and source music in classic American noir / Robert Miklitsch.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction :
- sound and (source) music
- Prologue :
- small world, big sign
- House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir
- Sonic effects : sound and fury in Forties noir
- Audio technologies : intercoms and dictaphones, telephones and radios, phonographs and jukeboxes
- Blues in the night : popular and classical instrumental source music
- Singing detectives and bluesmen, black jazzwomen and torch singers
- The
- big number (side B) : killing them softly
- The
- big number (A side) : siren city.
