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Siren city [electronic resource] : sound and source music in classic American noir / Robert Miklitsch.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2011.Description: xxii, 288 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4302/4 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.F54 M55 2011eb
Online resources:
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.
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E-Book Taylor's Library-TU 791.4302/4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) e-book

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.