Research Catalog

Title

Music, meaning and media / editors, Erkki Pekkilä, David Neumeyer, Richard Littlefield.

Publication

Imatra : International Semiotics Institute ; Helsinki : Semiotic Society of Finland ; University of Helsinki, 2006

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pekkilä, Erkki.
• Neumeyer, David.
• Littlefield, Richard.

Description

x, 246 p. : ill., music; 21 cm.

Series Statement

• Acta semiotica Fennica, 1235-497X ; 25
• Approaches to musical semiotics, 1458-4921 ; 11
• Studia musicologica Universitatis Helsingiensis, 0787-4294 ; 15

Alternative Title

Music, meaning & media

Subjects

• Music and globalization
• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Music and technology
• Mass media and music
• Music > Semiotics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Music in narrative film. On motion and stasis : photography, "moving pictures," music / David Neumeyer, Laura Neumeyer ; The topos of "evil medieval" in American horror film music / James Deaville ; La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano : narration, music, and cinema / Rosa Stella Cassotti ; Music in Aki Kaurismäki's film The match factory girl / Erkki Pekkilä ; It's a little bit funny : Moulin Rouge's sparkling postmodern critique / Susan Ingram -- Music and TV. Style and ascription in American television police drama theme music / Ronald Rodman ; Saving the earth with a dominant chord and some delay : cartoon music themes in Italian TV / Dario Martinelli ; Toward a semiotics of music appreciation as ownership : Bernstein's Young people's concerts and "educational" music television / Michael Saffle -- Music and technology. Virtuality and metadesign : sound art in the age of connectivity / Paulo C. Chagas ; "When New Media was the big idea" : Internet and the rethinking of pop-music languages / Gianni Sibilla ; Mediated stardom, constructed images : the value and functioning of authorship in popular music / Laura Ahonen ; Home studio aesthetics : tracking cultural processes of popular music production -- Migration and mediation of music. People's music in the People's Republic of China : a semiotic reading of socialist musical culture from the mid to late 1950s / Hon-Lun Yang ; The song that doesn't want to die : the nomadic tango / Heloísa de Araújo Duarte Valente ; Globalizing Bach : the promotion of classical music between idealism and commerce / Cornelia Szabó-Knotik ; Tell Mussorgsky the news : Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Pictures at an exhibition as open work / Kevin Holm-Hudson.

Call Number

JMD 07-963

ISBN

• 9525431185
• 9789525431186

LCCN

2007464172

OCLC

83991622

Title

Music, meaning and media / editors, Erkki Pekkilä, David Neumeyer, Richard Littlefield.

Imprint

Imatra : International Semiotics Institute ; Helsinki : Semiotic Society of Finland ; University of Helsinki, 2006 (Helsinki Hakapaino)

Series

Acta semiotica Fennica, 1235-497X ; 25

Approaches to musical semiotics, 1458-4921 ; 11

Studia musicologica Universitatis Helsingiensis, 0787-4294 ; 15

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Pekkilä, Erkki.

Neumeyer, David.

Littlefield, Richard.

Research Call Number

JMD 07-963