Music, meaning and media
By: editors, Erkki Pekkilä, David Neumeyer, Richard Littlefield.
Contributors: Pekkilä, Erkki.; Neumeyer, David.; Littlefield, Richard.; International Semiotics Institute.; Helsingin yliopisto.; Suomen semiotiikan seura.
Series: Acta semiotica Fennica -- 25; Studia musicologica Universitatis Helsingiensis -- 15; Approaches to musical semiotics -- 11
Publisher: International Semiotics Institute; Semiotic Society of Finland; University of Helsinki
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Imatra; Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9789525431186
Subjects: Television music -- History and criticism.; Music -- Semiotics.; Music and technology.; Mass media and music.; Motion picture music -- History and criticism.; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.; Motion pictures and music.; Music and globalization.; Television and music.
Other titles: Music, meaning & media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: 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; value: 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; value: 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; value: 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.