Recent musicological discourse, while frequently considering issues of historiography and canonicity, has seldom critically engaged with biography as a genre of documentary significance to reception history for its attempts to shape public opinion of its subjects. In consequence…
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Researching and writing about contemporary art and artists present unique challenges for scholars, students, professional critics and creative practitioners alike. This collection of essays from across the arts disciplines?music, literature, dance, theatre and the visual arts?ex…
Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon
by Leonard, Kendra Preston, Bach, Jacqueline, Clendinning, Elizabeth A., Halfyard, Steve, Howell, Amanda, Hung, Eric, Jencson, Linda, Masson, Cynthea, Middents, Jeffrey, Mills, Matthew, Pelkey, Stanley C., II, Wiley, Christopher
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This contributed volume explores the significant role that music plays in the works of Joss Whedon, investigating the uses and meaning of music and sound in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Serenity, and the Internet musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters, musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing attention to those aspects of thei…