Saying it with songs: popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema

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Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Singing a Song: The Culture and Conventions of Popular in the 1920s Chapter 2. Owning a Song: The Restructuring of Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley Chapter 3. Plugging a Song: The Discrete Charm of the Popular Song, From Broadway to Hollywood Chapter 4. Integrating a Song: The Threat to Narrative Plausibility Chapter 5. Curtailing a Song: Toward the Classical Background Score Conclusion: The Fate of the Motion Picture Song Appendix 1: Confirmatory License Issued by Publishers Protective Association (1929) Appendix 2: Tieups of Film and Music as Reported by Variety Appendix 3: Timeline of Relationships Between Film and Companies Appendix 4: Agreement between Al Dubin, The Vitaphone Corp., and Publishers Holding Corporation Appendix 5: Summary of Agreement between Vitaphone Corporation, M. Witmark & Sons, and Ray Perkins Bibliography Credits Index

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