Music and the Atomic Bomb on American Television, 1950-1969

ISBN-13: 9781433146695 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 202 str.

Reba Wissner

Opis

Music and the Atomic Bomb on American Television, 1950-1969 is the first book to consider the important role that music and sound play in the destruction narratives about the Bomb on Cold War-era television.

Spis treści

List of Musical Examples - Acknowledgments - Before the Bomb Explodes - Music for Mutilating Mannequins: Hearing Bomb Test Sites in Television Dramas - This Is Your Civil Defense - The Imagination of Disaster: Science Fiction and the Bomb - Preventative Measures - Hearing Children's Nuclear Anxiety - Appendix: Bomb Television Shows, 1950-1969 - Works Cited - Index.

O autorze

Reba Wissner (Ph.D., Musicology, Brandeis University) is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Columbus State University. She is the author of A Dimension of Sound: Music in The Twilight Zone and We Will Control All That You Hear: The Outer Limits and the Aural Imagination.