Essays on sound and vision
By: John Richardson and Stan Hawkins (eds.).
Publisher: Yliopistopaino, University of Helsinki Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9789524951449
Subjects: Motion picture music; History and criticism; Popular music
Notes: Most essays first presented at the symposium organized by the Academy of Finland research project Contemporary Music, Media and Mediation at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in March 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essays in English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John Richardson and Stan Hawkins; title: Avant-garde aesthetics. Aphex twin : monstrous hermaphrodites, madness and the strain of independent dance music / Stan Hawkins ; Listening to video art and the problem of too many homelands / Anahid Kassabian ; Going with the flow : compositional and analytical perspectives on soundtracks for experimental films / Petri Kuljuntausta and John Richardson; title: Re-sounding soundtracks. Demystified, remystified, and seduced by sirens : listening to David Lynch's films / Annette Davison ; Stardom, genre, and myth : music in Ani Kaurismäki's film The man without a past / Erkki Pekkilä; title: Televisual intertexts. Musical migration, perverted instruments and cosmic sounds : queer constructions in the music and sound of Angels in America / Susanna Välimäki ; A dialogue with the past : references to sixties culture in the title sequence of Friends / Yrjö Heinonen; title: Interrogating the mainstream. An introduction to the participatory and non-linear aspects of video games audio / Karen Collins ; Diegetic music in Star wars : the case of the Max Rebo Band / Antti-Ville Kärjä; title: Personal politics and embodied performance. Aesthetic and performative considerations of Christina Milian's music video Dip it low / Jon Refsdal Moe ; Envisioning the future : technology, futurism and the politics of race in Detroit techno / Sanna Rojola ; Double-voiced discourse and bodily pleasures in contemporary Finnish rock : the case of Maija Vilkkumaa / John Richardson.