Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

SUMARIO. List of Figures and Tables // Notes on Contributors // Foreword by Keith Negus / General Editor's Preface // Preface by John C. King and Christophe Beck // Acknowledgements // Introduction: Bay City Rollers. Now That's Music: Music as Cultural Code in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ; Vanessa Knights // Part I Constructing Sound: Music, Noise, and Silence / 1 Love, Death, Curses, and Reverses (in E minor): Music, Gender,and Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel ; Janet K. Halfyard / 2 What's My Melody? Music and the Deployment of Genre in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ; Louis Niebur / 3 Variations on Themes for Geeks and Heroes: Leitmotif, Style and the Musico-dramatic Moment ; Rob Haskins / 4 What rhymes with lungs? When Music Speaks Louder than Words ; Arnie Cox and Rebecca Fülöp / 5 Battling the Buzz: Contesting Sonic Codes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ; Katy Stevens / 6 And the Rest is Silence: Silence and Death as Motifs in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ; Gerry Bloustien // Part II O wning Music: Bands, Fans, and Pop Culture / 7 Bronze Things; Things of Bronze: Popular Music Cultures in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ; Catherine Driscoll / 8 More Than a Watcher: Buffy Fans, Amateur Music Videos, Romantic, Slash, and Intermedia ; Rob Cover / 9 You're Just a Girl! Punk Rock Feminism and the New Hero in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ; Renée T. Coulombe / 10 Punks, Geeks, and Goths: Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a Study of Popular Music Demographics on American Commercial Television ; Kathryn Hill // Part III Making Music: Buffy, the Musical / 11 Not The Same Arrangement: Breaking Utopian Promises in the Buffy Musical ; Diana Sandars and Rhonda V. Wilcox / 12 Give Me Something to Sing About: Intertextuality and the Audience in Once More, with Feeling ; Amy Bauer / 13 Rock, Television, Paper, Musicals, Scissors: Buffy, The Simpsons,and Parody ; Paul Attinello // Afterword by Anahid Kassabian // Bibliography // Index