As heard on TV
Subtitle: American narrative television music
By: Ronald W. Rodman.
Series: The Oxford music/media series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780195340242; 9780195340259
Subjects: Television music -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : What were musicians saying about television music during the first decade of broadcasting?; title: Toward an associative theory of television music; title: "Hello out there in TV land" : musical agency in the early television anthology drama; title: "And now a word from our sponsor" : musical structure and mediation in early TV commercials; title: "Beam me up, Scottie!" : leitmotifs, musical topos, and ascription in the sci-fi drama; title: "Go for your guns" : narrative syntax and musical functions in the TV western; title: Tube of pleasure, tube of bliss : television music as (not-so) drastic experience; title: "And now another word from our sponsor" : strategies of occultation and imbuement in musical commercials; title: "Just the facts, ma'am" : style change and markedness in police drama theme music; title: "The truth is out there" : music in modern/postmodern television.