ABSTRACT
In a major expansion of the conversation on music and film history, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era draws together a wide-ranging collection of scholarship on music in global cinema during the transition from silent to sound films (the late 1920s to the 1940s).
Moving beyond the traditional focus on Hollywood, this Companion considers the vast range of cinema and music created in often-overlooked regions throughout the rest of the world, providing crucial global context to film music history. An extensive editorial Introduction and 50 chapters from an array of international experts connect the music and sound of these films to regional and transnational issues—culturally, historically, and aesthetically—across five parts:
- Western Europe and Scandinavia
- Central and Eastern Europe
- North Africa, The Middle East, Asia, and Australasia
- Latin America
- Soviet Russia
Filling a major gap in the literature, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era offers an essential reference for scholars of music, film studies, and cultural history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|209 pages
Western Europe and Scandinavia
chapter 1|14 pages
"A Very Great Error Of Judgment"
chapter 2|16 pages
A Man Saying "Mooh" and an Actress Bursting into an Aria about Red and White Radishes
chapter 5|25 pages
Eternally Feminine
chapter 8|15 pages
Coming to Terms with Music as Narrative Architecture
chapter 13|17 pages
The Folkloric Film Musical in the Spanish Second Republic (1931–1939)
chapter 14|13 pages
Composing the Nation
part 2|162 pages
Central and Eastern Europe
chapter 16|13 pages
Battle of Songs
chapter 18|11 pages
Charms and Whispers
chapter 20|15 pages
Composing for the Screen, Composing for the Stage
chapter 21|11 pages
A Theme Runs through it
chapter 23|10 pages
Early Greek Talkies (1930-1940)
chapter 24|16 pages
Intercultural Synergies in Early Mediterranean Sound Cinema
chapter 25|20 pages
From Alafranga to Alaturca, from Operettas to Melodramas
chapter 26|8 pages
The Dream of a Fatty
part 3|198 pages
North Africa, The Middle East, Asia, and Australasia
chapter 28|10 pages
The Singing Cinema
chapter 33|13 pages
Mental Hearing of Sound
chapter 34|20 pages
Film Songwriting Practices in Pre–War Hong Kong Cinema
chapter 35|15 pages
Charitable or Traitorous?
chapter 36|12 pages
Singing Japanese Modernity
chapter 38|14 pages
Tarzan Meets Hiawatha
part 4|109 pages
Latin America
chapter 39|9 pages
Imaginaries from Buenos Aires
chapter 40|9 pages
Film and Tango
chapter 41|11 pages
Songs Beyond "El Rancho Grande"
chapter 42|17 pages
Dance, Desire, and Cosmopolitanism
chapter 43|10 pages
Beyond the Musical Numbers
chapter 44|15 pages
Between Cinearte and Phono-Arte
chapter 45|20 pages
Villa-Lobos's Music for the Feature O Descobrimento Do Brasil [The Discovery of Brazil] (1937)
chapter 46|16 pages
When 'Early' Sound Cinema was 'Late'
part 5|65 pages
Soviet Russia