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Music in Twin Peaks Reba Wissner

Music in Twin Peaks By Reba Wissner

Music in Twin Peaks by Reba Wissner


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Summary

In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. This collection considers how the music and sound design not only create the ambience of this ground-breaking series, but function in the narrative, encouraging multiple interpretations.

Music in Twin Peaks Summary

Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds by Reba Wissner

- Focuses on a series that has drawn significant scholarly attention and also has a passionate fan base that may be interested in this book
- Sections organized around themes of performance and audience, sound design, and musical meanings draw wider connections and link to hot topics in the field (fan studies, sound studies)
- Coverage of music offers a new element not addressed in existing studies of Twin Peaks
- Includes discussion of the original two seasons, the film Fire Walk With me, and the new Twin Peaks: The Return

About Reba Wissner

Reba Wissner is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Columbus State University.

Katherine Reed is Assistant Professor of Musicology at California State University, Fullerton.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Pitching the Peaks: Media Advertising for the Original Series

James Deaville

2 Listen to the Sounds: Fan Engagement with the Soundtrack of Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

Jessica Getman

3 Where Music is Always in the Air: Voice and Nostalgia in Twin Peaks

Brooke McCorkle Okazaki

4 The Bang Bang Bar, Silencio, and Lynch's Audiences: Meaning and Musical Performance in Twin Peaks: The Return

Katherine M. Reed

5 The Music is Not What It Seems: An Examination of Labor and Capital in the Music of Twin Peaks: The Return

Martha Schulenburg

6 Singer; Girl Singer; Roadhouse Singer; Herself: Julee Cruise in the World of Twin Peaks

David Sweeney

7 The Thread Will Be Torn: Sound Design as a Measure of Self-Knowledge in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Andrew Burt

8 Sound Design, Music, and The Birth of Evil in Twin Peaks: The Return

Kingsley Marshall and Rupert Loydell

9 What is Gordon Cole Listening To?: The Rhetoric of Subjective Sound in Twin Peaks: The Return

Zeynep Toraman

10 David Lynch's Metaphysical Sound Design: The Acousmatic Personification of Judy

Steven Wilson

11 Americana on the Internet: Listening to Twin Peaks

William Weston Bennett

12 Like Some Haunting Melody: The Laura Palmer Theme in the World of Twin Peaks

Andrew Kohler

13 Listen to the Skins: Drumming and Time in Twin Peaks

Kai West

14 Chaos and Creation: Music, Redemption, and the Atomic Bomb in Twin Peaks: The Return

Reba A. Wissner

Additional information

NLS9781032005973
9781032005973
1032005971
Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds by Reba Wissner
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-05-31
242
N/A
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