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Changing Tunes: The Use of Pre-Existing Music in Film. By Phil Powrie and Robynn Stilwell. (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [226 p. ISBN 0-7546-5137-1. $89.95.] Illustrations, music examples, filmography, bibliography, index.

In this collection of essays, editors Phil Powrie and Robynn Stilwell, both well-known for their own work in music and film, seek to illuminate the use of and responses to the inclusion of pre-existing compositions in a variety of film genres and historical periods. For the most part, the scholarship represented in this book is indicative of the newness of the field itself: some essays are paragons of ...

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