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Music, sound and silence in Buffy the vampire slayer / edited by Paul Attinello, Janet K. Halfyard, Vanessa Knights.

Title
Music, sound and silence in Buffy the vampire slayer / edited by Paul Attinello, Janet K. Halfyard, Vanessa Knights.
Publication
Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Attinello, Paul Gregory.
  • Halfyard, Janet K., 1966-
  • Knights, Vanessa
Description
xxiii, 278 p. : ill., music; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Ashgate popular and folk music series
Uniform Title
Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Subject
  • Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program)
  • Television music > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction. Bay City Rollers : now that's music : music as cultural code in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Vanessa Knights -- Part I. Constructing sound : music, noise, and silence. Love, death, curses, and reverses (in E minor) : music, gender, and identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel / Janet K. Halfyard ; What's my melody? Music and the deployment of genre in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Louis Niebur ; Variations on themes for geeks and heroes : leitmotif, style and the musico-dramatic moment / Rob Haskins ; What rhymes with lungs? When music speaks louder than words / Arnie Cox and Rebecca Fülöp ; Battling the buzz : contesting sonic codes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Katy Stevens ; And the rest is silence : silence and death as motifs in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Gerry Bloustien -- Part II. Owning music : bands, fans, and pop culture. Bronze things, things of bronze : popular music cultures in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Catherine Driscoll ; More than a watcher : Buffy fans, amateur music videos, romantic slash, and intermedia / Rob Cover ; You're just a girl! Punk rock feminism and the new hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Renée T. Coulombe ; Punks, geeks, and goths : Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a study of popular music demographics on American commercial television / Kathryn Hill -- Part III. Making music : Buffy, the musical. Not "The Same Arrangement" : breaking utopian promises in the Buffy musical / Diana Sandars and Rhonda V. Wilcox ; Give me something to sing about : intertextuality and the audience in "Once more, with feeling" / Amy Bauer ; Rock, television, paper, musicals, scissors : Buffy, The Simpsons, and parody / Paul Attinello -- Afterword / Anahid Kassabian.
ISBN
  • 9780754660415 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0754660419 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780754660422 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0754660427 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008048627
OCLC
  • 270232059
  • SCSB-10013865
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library