Although music has been conceived as an art of pure emotions and devoid of concepts, it
has always gained its significance in intermedial contexts. The sense and impact of music …

Although music has been conceived as an art of pure emotions and devoid of concepts, it
has always gained its significance in intermedial contexts. The sense and impact of music …

Beautiful Monsters explores the ways in which" classical" music made its way into late
twentieth-century American mainstream culture--in pop songs, movie scores, and print …

Intermediality can be broadly defined as “the participation of more than one medium of
expression in the signification of a human artefact”(Wolf, Musicalization 1). It became a …

The study of music history has, in the last decades, seen a move away from the music of the
canon, and of dead, white, male,'great'composers, towards a closer engagement with …

This book explores the role of music in the some five hundred feature-length films on the
Middle Ages produced between the late 1890s and the present day. Haines focuses on the …

The electromagnetic basis of video technology allowed sound and image to be recorded
simultaneously: as a result, composers could visualize their music and artists could sound …

In extending the traditional field of Word and Music Studies to include research on film and
other forms of moving visualizations, this volume focuses on innovative discussions of …

What does contemporary scholarship on the music video have to offer? The heyday of the
purely televisual, MTV-style clip has long passed. Its once explicitly commercial imperative …

This chapter presents theoretical deliberations and two case studies that demonstrate how
conceptualizations of word-music relations and of the controversial classical-popular binary …