The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music

The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music

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The Sounds of Commerce is the first book to present a detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sales, to that of orchestrated pop records by Henry Mancini and Ennio Morricone in the 1960• to the MTV-ready pop songs that occupy soundtrack CDs of today. Jeff Smith's landmark exploration of film and music cross-promotion inve...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published November 15th 1998 by Columbia University Press (first published 1998)
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Jeff Smith is a Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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