Series Foreword
Volume Foreword
Preface: Listening to the Small Screen
Part I: Practices and Theories of Television Music
1. A Discipline Emerges: Reading Writing About Listening to Television
James Deaville
2. "Coperettas," "Detecterns," and Space Operas: Music and Genre Hybridization in American Television
Ron Rodman
3. TV Music and the History of Television Sound
Shawn VanCour
4. Rural Music on American Television, 1948-2010
Michael Saffle
5. Music in the Golden Age of Television News Documentaries
Colin Roust
Part II: Case Studies in Television Music
6. "Bad Wolf": Leitmotiv and Musical Textures in Doctor Who (2005)
Robynn Stilwell
7. From Punk to the Musical: South Park, Music, and the Cartoon Format
Sean Nye
8. It’s What’s Happening Baby! Television Music and the Politics of the War
On Poverty
Norma Coates
9. Channeling Glenn Gould: Masculinities from Television to New Hollywood
Julie Brown
10. "The Rock Man’s Burden": Consuming Canada at Live 8
Kip Pegley
Appendix: Generation X, South Park, and TV Music Composition: An Interview with Adam Berry
Conducted by Sean Nye
Biography
James Deaville is a Professor in the School for Studies in Art and Culture: Music, at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. His interest in television music focuses on how music has played a role in the reporting of news, and has published articles on news music used for 9/11 and for the war in Iraq.
"A worthy contribution to the field, and I would strongly recommend that music libraries and individuals wishing to learn more about television music purchase this book for their collections." - Lisa Scoggin, Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association
