Music in Twin Peaks

Listen to the Sounds

Reba Wissner, Katherine Reed (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

242 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-42313-1 (ISBN)

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In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. This collection considers how the music and sound design not only create the ambience of this ground-breaking series, but function in the narrative, encouraging multiple interpretations.

In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. From its debut in 1990 to its return to television in 2017, Twin Peaks has amassed a cult following, and inspired myriad scholarly studies. This collection considers how the music and sound design not only create the ambience of this ground-breaking series, but function in the narrative, encouraging multiple interpretations. With chapters that consider how music shapes the relationship of audiences and fans to the story, the importance of sound design, and the symbolism embedded in the score, this book provides a range of perspectives for scholars of music and film studies, while giving fans new insight into an iconic television show.

Reba Wissner is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Columbus State University. Katherine Reed is Assistant Professor of Musicology at California State University, Fullerton.

Introduction

1 Pitching the Peaks: Media Advertising for the Original Series

James Deaville

2 "Listen to the Sounds": Fan Engagement with the Soundtrack of Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

Jessica Getman

3 Where Music is Always in the Air: Voice and Nostalgia in Twin Peaks

Brooke McCorkle Okazaki

4 The Bang Bang Bar, Silencio, and Lynch’s Audiences: Meaning and Musical Performance in Twin Peaks: The Return

Katherine M. Reed

5 The Music is Not What It Seems: An Examination of Labor and Capital in the Music of Twin Peaks: The Return

Martha Schulenburg

6 "Singer"; "Girl Singer"; "Roadhouse Singer"; "Herself": Julee Cruise in the World of Twin Peaks

David Sweeney

7 "The Thread Will Be Torn": Sound Design as a Measure of Self-Knowledge in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Andrew Burt

8 Sound Design, Music, and The Birth of Evil in Twin Peaks: The Return

Kingsley Marshall and Rupert Loydell

9 "What is Gordon Cole Listening To?": The Rhetoric of Subjective Sound in Twin Peaks: The Return

Zeynep Toraman

10 David Lynch’s Metaphysical Sound Design: The Acousmatic Personification of Judy

Steven Wilson

11 Americana on the Internet: Listening to Twin Peaks

William Weston Bennett

12 "Like Some Haunting Melody": The Laura Palmer Theme in the World of Twin Peaks

Andrew Kohler

13 Listen to the Skins: Drumming and Time in Twin Peaks

Kai West

14 Chaos and Creation: Music, Redemption, and the Atomic Bomb in Twin Peaks: The Return

Reba A. Wissner

Erscheinungsdatum	02.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Music and Screen Media Series
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 26 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-42313-8 / 0367423138
ISBN-13	978-0-367-42313-1 / 9780367423131
Zustand	Neuware