Neu | The Soundtrack Album. Listening to Media, by Paul N. Reinsch and Laurel Westrup

ISBN 9781138325319
Published March 2, 2020 by Routledge
260 Pages – 20 B/W Illustrations

Book Description

The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media offers the first sustained exploration of the soundtrack album as a distinctive form of media. 

Soundtrack albums have been part of our media and musical landscape for decades, enduring across formats from vinyl and 8-tracks to streaming playlists. This book makes the case that soundtrack albums are more than promotional tools for films, television shows, or video games — they are complex media texts that reward a detailed analysis. The collection’s contributors explore a diverse range of soundtrack albums, from Super Fly to Stranger Things, revealing how these albums change our understanding of the music and film industries and the audio-visual relationships that drive them.

An excellent resource for students of Music, Media Studies, and Film/Screen Media courses, The Soundtrack Album offers interdisciplinary perspectives and opens new areas for exploration in music and media studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Listening to Media 
Paul N. Reinsch and Laurel Westrup

Part 1: Case Studies

1. The Soundtrack in Transition: The Many Objects of Paul Simon’s One-Trick Pony
Landon Palmer 

2. It’s a Kind of Soundtrack: Queen, Highlander, and the “Unofficial Soundtrack Album”
Ross Melnick

3. Super Fly and the Sound of Seventies Blaxploitation Cinema
Matthew Tchepikova-Treon

4. Signifyin(g) on the Soundtrack Album? OutKast’s Idlewild Project
Laurel Westrup

Part 2: Brands

5. Learning from Sesame Street Soundtrack Albums
Kathryn A. Ostrofsky 

6. Creazioni Artistiche Musicali and Italian Cinema after World War II
Roberto Calabretto

7. King of the Whole Wide World: Elvis, RCA Camden, and the Non-Filmic “Budget” Soundtrack Album 
Justin Morris

8. Sing Along with Hitch: Musically Marketing the Master of Suspense 
Richard R. Ness

Part 3: Formats

9. Fixing the Brand: The Sonic Branding of Adult Swim
David Gurney 

10. Video Game Soundtrack Albums and the Digital Revolution
Robert Cavanagh

11. Tracking Hypernostalgia: Soundtrack Albums and the Return of the Cassette in American Film and Television
Kristen Galvin

Part 4: New Directions

12. Now—For Even Greater Enjoyment…The Home Movie Soundtrack Album
Liz Czach

13. A Brief Hearing for the Unified Soundtrack Album 
Paul N. Reinsch

Editor(s)

Biography

Paul N. Reinsch is Associate Professor of Practice–Cinema in the School of Theatre & Dance at Texas Tech University. 

Laurel Westrup is a Continuing Lecturer with Writing Programs and the Honors Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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