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In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the vo. The need for a research volume on European theatre music and sound is almost self-evident. Musical and sonic practices. Pinot noir, the famously elegant, sexy, and capricious red grape of Burgundy, is finally producing impressive wines in N. Sound has always been an integral component of the moviegoing experience. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN hardcover : alk. Film noir β History and criticism. Motion pictures β Sound effects. Motion picture music β History and criticism. F54M55 Miklitsch, poet laureate of Niagara Falls Now listen. Was that a freight train or a millimeter shell passing overhead? Now listen carefully. A door latch or the cocking of a. A jungle bird or a falling bomb?
Someone tapping on a champagne glass or Swiss bells? I can take it or leave it. I think Shostakovich is so exciting. On Saturday nights and holidays and, crucially, before the arrival of the Beatles, which forever changed the kind of music that my brothers and sisters listened to , my father would play big-band records, 78s β Harry James, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey brothers, Jimmy and Tommy β on the console phonograph in the living room. At our prompting and to our immense amusement, my parents would also invariably jitterbug, a dance that in the early s seemed hopelessly old-fashioned to us β compared, that is, to the twist.
A more recent source of my audiophilia has been my abiding interest in movie soundtracks. At the time, I was visiting a college friend whose parents lived outside New York City and, on a whim, we decided to go into the city for the day and, as it turned out, the night.
