Buffy, Ballads and Bad Guys Who Sing
Subtitle: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon
By: edited by Kendra Preston Leonard
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780810869455
Subjects: Firefly (Television program); Television music; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Buffy, the vampire slayer (Television program); Angel (Television program : 1999-2004)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Welcome to the hellmouth : Buffy's music arc / Jacqueline Bach; title: Theorizing television music as serial art : Buffy the vampire slayer and the narratology of the thematic score / Christopher Wiley; title: Spike ensouled : the sonic transformations of a champion / Elizabeth A. Clendinning; title: More than just a rock'n'roll reversal : tracking gender on Buffy the vampire slayer / Amanda Howell; title: A sweet vamp : critiquing the treatment of race in Buffy and the American musical once more (with feeling) / Jeffrey Middents; title: Concealing truths : rhetorical questions in "Once more, with feeling" / Cynthea Masson; title: Singing their hearts out : the problem of performance in Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel / Janet K. Halfyard; title: Angel's narrative score / Matthew Mills; title: Still flyin'? : conventions, reversals, and musical meaning in Firefly / Stanley C. Pelkey II; title: "My rifle's as bright as my sweetheart's eyes" : Joss Whedon's Firefly and the songs of the Clancy Brothers / Linda Jencson; title: The meaning of "world music" in Firefly / Eric Hung; title: "The status is not quo" : gender and performance in Dr. Horrible's sing-along blog / Kendra Preston Leonard.