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Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music.(Book Review)

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by Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Arthur Knight.

What counts as popular music in film? Pamela Robertson Wojcik and Arthur Knight, the editors of Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music, have cast a wide net in their attempt to reach a definition. Popular music, they write, "includes folk, country, Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, jazz, disco, pop, rock-and-roll, rap, selections and adaptations of `classical' music, and more" (5). As for the relationship between music and film, the editors' goal is to break down the traditional dichotomy of "musical" or "nonmusical" films and instead adopt a comparative, relational approach to studying film music in various ...

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