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The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media book cover

1st Edition

The Soundtrack Album Listening to Media

Edited By Paul N. Reinsch, Laurel Westrup Copyright 2020
278 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media offers the first sustained exploration of the soundtrack album as a distinctive form of media. Soundtrack albums have been part of our media and musical landscape for decades, enduring across formats from vinyl and 8-tracks to streaming playlists. This book makes the case that soundtrack albums are more than promotional tools for films, television... Read more

Introduction: Listening to Media

Paul N. Reinsch and Laurel Westrup

Part 1: Case Studies

1. The Soundtrack in Transition: The Many Objects of Paul Simon’s One-Trick Pony

Landon Palmer

2. It’s a Kind of Soundtrack: Queen, Highlander, and the "Unofficial Soundtrack Album"

Ross Melnick

3. Super Fly and the Sound of Seventies Blaxploitation Cinema

Matthew Tchepikova-Treon

4. Signifyin(g) on the Soundtrack Album? OutKast’s Idlewild Project

Laurel Westrup

Part 2: Brands

5. Learning from Sesame Street Soundtrack Albums

Kathryn A. Ostrofsky

6. Creazioni Artistiche Musicali and Italian Cinema after World War II

Roberto Calabretto

7. King of the Whole Wide World: Elvis, RCA Camden, and the Non-Filmic "Budget"

Soundtrack Album

Justin Morris

8. Sing Along with Hitch: Musically Marketing the Master of Suspense

Richard R. Ness

Part 3: Formats

9. Fixing the Brand: The Sonic Branding of Adult Swim

David Gurney

10. Video Game Soundtrack Albums and the Digital Revolution

Robert Cavanagh

11. Tracking Hypernostalgia: Soundtrack Albums and the Return of the Cassette in American

Film and Television

Kristen Galvin

Part 4: New Directions

12. Now—For Even Greater Enjoyment…The Home Movie Soundtrack Album

Liz Czach

13. A Brief Hearing for the Unified Soundtrack Album

Paul N. Reinsch

Biography

Paul N. Reinsch is Associate Professor of Practice–Cinema in the School of Theatre & Dance at Texas Tech University.

Laurel Westrup is a Continuing Lecturer with Writing Programs and the Honors Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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