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Title:
Buffy, ballads, and bad guys who sing : music in the worlds of Joss Whedon
Author:
Leonard, Kendra Preston.
ISBN:
9780810869455
Publication Information:
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
xxi, 308 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Welcome to the hellmouth : Buffy's music arc / Jacqueline Bach -- Theorizing television music as serial art : Buffy the vampire slayer and the narratology of the thematic score / Christopher Wiley -- Spike ensouled : the sonic transformations of a champion / Elizabeth A. Clendinning -- More than just a rock'n'roll reversal : tracking gender on Buffy the vampire slayer / Amanda Howell -- A sweet vamp : critiquing the treatment of race in Buffy and the American musical once more (with feeling) / Jeffrey Middents -- Concealing truths : rhetorical questions in "Once more, with feeling" / Cynthea Masson -- Singing their hearts out : the problem of performance in Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel / Janet K. Halfyard -- Angel's narrative score / Matthew Mills -- Still flyin'? : conventions, reversals, and musical meaning in Firefly / Stanley C. Pelkey II -- "My rifle's as bright as my sweetheart's eyes" : Joss Whedon's Firefly and the songs of the Clancy Brothers / Linda Jencson -- The meaning of "world music"in Firefly / Eric Hung -- "The status is not quo" : gender and performance in Dr. Horrible's sing-along blog / Kendra Preston Leonard.