1st Edition

Music in Twin Peaks Listen to the Sounds

Edited By Reba Wissner, Katherine Reed Copyright 2021
256 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. From its debut in 1990 to its return to television in 2017, Twin Peaks has amassed a cult following, and inspired myriad scholarly studies. This collection considers how the music and sound design not only create the ambience of this ground-breaking series,... Read more

Introduction

1 Pitching the Peaks: Media Advertising for the Original Series

James Deaville

2 "Listen to the Sounds": Fan Engagement with the Soundtrack of Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

Jessica Getman

3 Where Music is Always in the Air: Voice and Nostalgia in Twin Peaks

Brooke McCorkle Okazaki

4 The Bang Bang Bar, Silencio, and Lynch’s Audiences: Meaning and Musical Performance in Twin Peaks: The Return

Katherine M. Reed

5 The Music is Not What It Seems: An Examination of Labor and Capital in the Music of Twin Peaks: The Return

Martha Schulenburg

6 "Singer"; "Girl Singer"; "Roadhouse Singer"; "Herself": Julee Cruise in the World of Twin Peaks

David Sweeney

7 "The Thread Will Be Torn": Sound Design as a Measure of Self-Knowledge in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Andrew Burt

8 Sound Design, Music, and The Birth of Evil in Twin Peaks: The Return

Kingsley Marshall and Rupert Loydell

9 "What is Gordon Cole Listening To?": The Rhetoric of Subjective Sound in Twin Peaks: The Return

Zeynep Toraman

10 David Lynch’s Metaphysical Sound Design: The Acousmatic Personification of Judy

Steven Wilson

11 Americana on the Internet: Listening to Twin Peaks

William Weston Bennett

12 "Like Some Haunting Melody": The Laura Palmer Theme in the World of Twin Peaks

Andrew Kohler

13 Listen to the Skins: Drumming and Time in Twin Peaks

Kai West

14 Chaos and Creation: Music, Redemption, and the Atomic Bomb in Twin Peaks: The Return

Reba A. Wissner

Biography

Reba Wissner is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Columbus State University.

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