1st Edition

Adaptation, Rearrangement, and Music Across Screen Media

Edited By Kate Galloway, Katherine Reed, Reba Wissner Copyright 2027
300 Pages 71 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Adaptation, Rearrangement, and Music Across Screen Media explores the various ways in which adaptation and rearrangement shape the role of music across a range of screen media and communities of viewing. Many forms of audiovisual screen media are characterized by musical adaptation and rearrangement, constantly remixing and reusing pre-existing music in new and unexpected narrative contexts.... Read more

Introduction: Adaptation and Rearrangement Across Screen Media
KATE GALLOWAY, KATHERINE REED, AND REBA A. WISSNER

PART 1: Reuse and Arrangement
1 Cantor Mortis: Singing Bodies, Pre-Existing Music, Death, and Life in Swiss Army Man (dir. Daniels, 2016)
JAMES DENIS MC GLYNN

2 David Bowie, Lazarus, and Self-Adaptation Through the Audiovisual
KATHERINE M. REED

3 Star Trek: Parody—Music in Transmedial Exchange
JESSICA L. GETMAN

4 Transmedia Transylvania: Interactivity and Adaptation in Rocky Horror Video Games
WILLIAM GIBBONS

5 Link’s Awakening for the Nintendo Switch: A Taxonomy of Musical Palimpsests
JORDAN CARMALT STOKES

PART 2: Layering and Dialogue
6 Audiovisual Déjà Vu: Doubling, Afterimages, and Technostalgia in Olivia Rodrigo’s Music Videos
AMY SKJERSETH

7 Death and Transfiguration: (Ludomusical) Adaptation Across the Scott Pilgrim Franchise
STEFAN GREENFIELD-CASAS

8 Transmedia Perry Mason: The Case of the Novel to Film to Television Adaptations
REBA A. WISSNER

9 The Indie Sleaze Revival Will Be Televised: Sync, Self-Referentiality, and the Sound of the 0s
MORGAN BIMM

PART 3: Representation and Recall
10 Adaptation (Taylor’s Version): Performing Intertextual Listening and the Compilation Soundtrack
KATE GALLOWAY

11 Westworld and Crazy Rich Asians: Exploring the Music of Asian and Asian American Identity Formation
CAITLAN TRUELOVE

12 Virtual Acousmatics: Aspects of Orientation Through Gamic Remix
LOGAN H.G. DAVIS

13 Games Telling Lies?: Adapting the Jazz-Noir Fallacy in Game Noir
JAMES C. HEAZLEWOOD-DALE

Biography

Kate Galloway is Assistant Professor of Popular Music at Wilfrid Laurier University

Katherine Reed is Associate Professor of Musicology at California State University, Fullerton.

Reba Wissner is Associate Professor of Musicology and coordinator of the Public Musicology Undergraduate Certificate at Columbus State University.