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Empires of Sound: Music and Colonial Encounters in 20th-Century Narrative Film

Empires of Sound: Music and Colonial Encounters in 20th-Century Narrative Film

O'Flynn, John

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture

TelevisionFilm StudiesGeneral World History

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 2, 2027

ISBN10: 3032351324
ISBN13: 9783032351326
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 2 2027
Pages: 417
Language: English
Empires of Sound: Music and Colonial Encounters in 20th-Century Narrative Film presents the first comprehensive interrogation of film music's involvement with imperial and (settler-)colonial themes across narrative fiction features from the 1930s-1990s. It interprets a recurring 'colonial sonic gaze' in soundtracks over this time, from the blatant exoticism, orientalism and primitivism of scores for early sound film to more nuanced dualisms of self/Other through incorporation of world music sonorities by the century's end. Chapter themes include the (mis)representation of Indigenous Americans by Max Steiner; scores for (British) Empire-themed film produced on both sides of the Atlantic; Maurice Jarre's compositions for postcolonial screen narratives; unique approaches to music and sound in mid-century Australian cinema; soundtracks to end-of-empire narratives set in East Asia; scoring for mission-themed film in the Americas; and musical portrayals of slavery on screen and associated white saviour themes. Overall findings lead to the original conception of 'film aurality' as potentially enabling future reparative approaches to film musicology.

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