The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era

Herausgegeben:Barham, Jeremy

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Produktbeschreibung

In a major expansion of the conversation on music and film history, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era draws together a wide-ranging collection of scholarship on music in global cinema during the transition from silent to sound films (the late 1920s to the 1940s).

Moving beyond the traditional focus on Hollywood, this Companion considers the vast range of cinema and music created in often-overlooked regions throughout the rest of the world, providing crucial global context to film music history. An extensive editorial Introduction and 50 chapters from an array of international experts connect the music and sound of these films to regional and transnational issues-culturally, historically, and aesthetically-across five parts:
Western Europe and ScandinaviaCentral and Eastern EuropeNorth Africa, The Middle East, Asia, and AustralasiaLatin AmericaSoviet Russia
Filling a major gap in the literature, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era offers an essential reference for scholars of music, film studies, and cultural history.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Music Companions
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 844
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1744g
• ISBN-13: 9781032595313
• ISBN-10: 1032595310
• Artikelnr.: 75233770

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Barham is Professor of Music at the University of Surrey, where he is also Director of the Institute of Austrian and German Music Research. He researches screen music, the music and culture of Gustav Mahler, and jazz. He was supported by the British Academy and DAAD in an archival investigation into the music of early German sound film, from which this edited volume grew. In screen music, he has published on experimental film, pre-existent music, the sci-fi genre, the aesthetics of live-score screenings, and jazz in film.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of music examples, figures, and tables
Notes on contributors
Introduction. Jeremy Barham
PART 1. Western Europe and Scandinavia
1. "A very great error of judgment": Caution and Timidity in the Musical
Provision of Britain's Early Talkie Features.
2. A Man Saying "Mooh" and an Actress Bursting into an Aria about Red and
White Radishes. Early Sound Film in The Netherlands: Developments &
Debates.
3. The Use of Non-Diegetic Music in Early Swedish Talkies 1930-1931.
4. The Kinotheken and Giuseppe Becce's Scoring Practices in Early German
Sound Cinema.
5. Eternally Feminine: Das blaue Licht (1932), Anna und Elisabeth (1933),
Elisabeth und der Narr (1933), and Cultural Representations of Womanhood in
the Scoring of Early Sound Films from Weimar-Republic Germany.
6. Film Music in France, 1928-1940'.
7. Silent Film, Music, and Fantasy During the Transition to Sound.
8. Coming to Terms with Music as Narrative Architecture: Jean Grémillon's
Maldone (1928), La Petite Lise (1930), and Daïnah la Métisse (1932).
9. Readymade Soundtracks: Musical Accompaniment for Dada and Surrealist
Film.
10. Exotic Music, Colonial Others, and French Cultural Identity in Poetic
Realist Cinema.
11. The Advent of Sound Film in Italy and the First Approaches to the New
Audio-Visual Genre by Italian Composers during the Years 1930-1940.
12. "Oh ... Modern Music!" Hollywood, Satire, and "Modernism" in Giuseppe
Piazzi's Score for I fratelli dinamite (1949).
13. The Folkloric Film Musical in the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1939):
Imperio Argentina, Florián Rey and their Morena Clara.
14. Composing the Nation: the Role of fado in A Severa, the First
Portuguese Sound Film (1931).
15. Music and Dance in the Service of Modern Poland in Polish Films of the
1930s.
16. Battle of Songs: Music and Language in Left-wing Yiddish Films Made in
Poland During the 1930s and 1940s.
17. Film Song as a Synergistic Commodity in the Acoustic Media Culture of
1930s Czechoslovakia.
18. Charms and Whispers: Musical Comedy and Vocal Performance in Old¿ich
Nový's Star Image 1936-1945.
19. The Metamusical Qualities of the Viennese Film, Cine-Operetta, and the
Music Film in Austrian Sound Film of the 1930s.
20. Composing for the Screen, Composing for the Stage: Hungarian Film
Composers in the Interwar Period.
21. A Theme Runs Through It: Early Hungarian Sound Films and the Music of
Tibor Weygand.
22. Who is Singing Over There? The Potpourri of Multiple Voices in Early
Sound Cinema of the Balkans.
23. Early Greek Talkies (1930-1940): Struggling Between Technological
Innovation and Theatrical Tradition.
24. Intercultural Synergies in Early Mediterranean Sound Cinema: Togo
Mizrahi's Greek-Speaking Film The Girl Refugee (1938).
25. From Alafranga to Alaturca, from Operettas to Melodramas: Music in
Early Turkish Talkies.
26. "The Dream of a Fatty:" the First Lithuanian Sound Film in the Context
of Early Puppet-Animation Films.
27. Essentially Egyptian: the Development of a Syncretic Film Song Style.
28. The Singing Cinema: Synchronized Sound and the Reception by Press and
Audiences of Singing Films in Egypt, 1907-1934.
30. The Indian Origins of the Iranian Sound Film.
31. Sound and Music in the Early Indian Talkie: 1931-1936.
32. The Musical Language of Indian Film Song of the 1940s.
33. Mental Hearing of Sound: the Evocation and Mediation of Acoustic
Experience in Two Stars in the Milky Way (1931).
34. Film Songwriting Practices in Pre-war Hong Kong Cinema: a Case Study of
Director Chan Pei.
35. Charitable or Traitorous? The Ethics and Aesthetics of Performance in
Myriad of Colors (1943).
36. Singing Japanese Modernity: a Genealogy of Performance Scenes in Early
Talkies in Japan and their Heterogeneous Representation.
37. Emerging from Silence: Shochiku, Ito, and Ozu's Early Sound Films.
38. Tarzan Meets Hiawatha: Musical Representation in Australian Indigenous
Films of the 1930s.
39. Imaginaries from Buenos Aires. From Tango Poetics of the 1920s Toward
Sound Films in the 1930s.
40. Film and Tango: the Contribution of Luis César Amadori to the Argentine
Film Industry in the Late 1930s.
41. Songs Beyond "el Rancho Grande": Trans/national and Cross-Media
Dimensions in the Mexican Comedia Ranchera.
42. Dance, Desire, and Cosmopolitanism: Early Danzón Performances in the
1930s Mexican Prostitute Melodrama.
43. Beyond the Musical Numbers: the Brazilian Film Coisas Nossas and its
Arrangements with the Local Record Industry.
44. Between Cinearte and Phono-arte: on the Arrival of Brazilian Sound Film
in Two Magazines.
45. Villa-Lobos's Music for the Feature O descobrimento do Brasil [The
Discovery of Brazil] (1937): Nationalism in the Early Sound Era.
46. When 'Early' Sound Cinema was 'Late:' Differential Chronologies in
Chile, Uruguay, Cuba and Colombia.
47. The Sound of Socialist Realism: Excess and Ideology in Stalinist Film.
48. "New Means of Enormous Power": Music in Early Soviet Sound Film.
49. Experimentalism and the 'Mainstream' in the Early Film Scores of Gavril
Popov and Vladimir Shcherbachyov.
50. Accordions as 'Sluts,' Guitars as Gypsies, and Pianos as Noble Fops:
the Images of Russian Musical Instruments in Soviet Sound Movies of the
1930s.
Index