Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds by Kendra Preston Leonard,Rhonda V. Wilcox,Jacqueline PDF

By Kendra Preston Leonard,Rhonda V. Wilcox,Jacqueline Bach,Elizabeth A. Clendinning,Steve Halfyard,Amanda Howell,Eric Hung,Linda Jencson,Cynthea Masson,Jeffrey Middents,Matthew Mills,Stanley C., II Pelkey,Christopher Wiley

ISBN-10: 0810869454

ISBN-13: 9780810869455

When author and director Joss Whedon created the nature Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he may not often have anticipated the ensuing educational curiosity in his paintings. but nearly six years after the top of Buffy on tv, Buffy studies—and educational paintings on Whedon's increasing oeuvre—continue to develop. Now with 3 highly renowned tv exhibits, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the movie Serenity all on hand on DVD, students are comparing numerous features of the Whedon universe (or "Whedonverse"). Buffy, Ballads, and undesirable men Who Sing: track within the Worlds of Joss Whedon stories the numerous position that song performs in those works, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the web musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

Kendra Preston Leonard has accumulated a various collection of essays that discover song and sound in Joss Whedon's works. The essays examine either diegetic and non-diegetic track, contemplating track from a number of assets, together with the exhibits' unique ratings, tune played by means of the characters themselves, and song contributed by way of such artists as Michelle department, The intercourse Pistols, and Sarah McLachlan, in addition to classical composers like Camille Saint-Saëns and Johannes Brahms.

The ways comprise ancient and theoretical musicology, feminist and queer musicology, media reports, cultural background, and interdisciplinary readings. The ebook additionally explores the compositions written by way of Whedon himself: the subject matter tune for Firefly, and absolutely built-in musicals, the Buffy episode "Once extra, With Feeling" and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. With numerous musical examples, a desk with an entire breakdown of the Danse Macabre scene from the acclaimed Buffy episode "Hush," and an index, this quantity could be interesting to scholars and students of science-fiction, tv, movie, and renowned culture.

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