Saying it with songs : popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema /
Spring, Katherine,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Singing a song : the culture and conventions of popular music in the 1920s -- Owning a song : the restructuring of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley -- Plugging a song : the discrete charm of the popular song, from Broadway to Hollywood -- Integrating a song : the threat to narrative plausibility -- Curtailing a song : toward the classical background score.
Motion picture music
Popular music