Siren city : sound and source music in classic American noir / / Robert Miklitsch.

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxii, 288 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • House sound : reverb, offscreen sound, and voice-over narration in early RKO noir
  • Sonic effects : sound and fury in Forties noir
  • Audio technologies : intercoms and dictaphones, telephones and radios, phonographs and jukeboxes
  • Blues in the night : popular and classical instrumental source music
  • Singing detectives and bluesmen, black jazzwomen and torch singers
  • The big number (side b) : killing them softly
  • The big number (a side) : siren city.