1st Edition

Adaptation, Rearrangement, and Music Across Screen Media

Edited By Kate Galloway, Katherine Reed, Reba Wissner Copyright 2027
280 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

Acknowledgements

List of Figures, Tables, and Musical Examples

 

Introduction: Adaptation and Rearrangement Across Screen Media

Kate Galloway, Katherine Reed, and Reba A. Wissner

 

Part 1

Reuse and Arrangement

Chapter 1: Cantor Mortis: Singing Bodies, Pre-existing Music, Death, and Life in Swiss Army Man (dir. Daniels, 2016)

James Denis Mc Glynn

Chapter 2: David Bowie, Lazarus, and Self-Adaptation through the Audiovisual

Katherine Reed

Chapter 3: Star Trek: Parody–Music in Transmedial Exchange

Jessica Getman

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

William Gibbons

Chapter 5: Link’s Awakening for the Nintendo Switch: A Taxonomy of Musical Palimpsests

Jordan Carmalt Stokes

 

Part 2

Layering and Dialogue

Chapter 6: Audiovisual Déjà Vu: Doubling, Afterimages, and Technostalgia in Olivia Rodrigo’s Music Videos

Amy Skjerseth

Chapter 7: Death and Transfiguration: (Ludomusical) Adaptation across the Scott Pilgrim Franchise

Stefan Greenfield-Casas

Chapter 8: Transmedia Perry Mason: The Case of the Novel to Film to Television Adaptations

Reba A. Wissner

Chapter 9: The Indie Sleaze Revival Will Be Televised: Sync, Self-Referentiality, and the Sound of the 2000s

Morgan Bimm

 

Part 3

Representation and Recall

Chapter 10: Adaptation (Taylor’s Version): Performing Intertextual Listening and the Compilation Soundtrack

Kate Galloway

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

Caitlan Truelove

Chapter 12: Virtual Acousmatics: Aspects of Orientation Through Gamic Remix

Logan H. G. Davis

Chapter 13: Games Telling Lies? Adapting the Jazz-Noir Fallacy in Game Noir

James C. Heazlewood-Dale

Notes on Contributors

Index

Biography

Kate Galloway is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Games at 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.