Siren city sound and source music in classic American noir /
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10537898 |
Table of Contents:
- House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir
- Sonic effects : sound and fury in Forties noir
- Audio technologies : intercoms and dictaphones, telephones and radios, phonographs and jukeboxes
- Blues in the night : popular and classical instrumental source music
- Singing detectives and bluesmen, black jazzwomen and torch singers
- The big number (side b) : killing them softly
- The big number (a side) : siren city.