Music and Sound in Documentary Film

SUMARIO. Introduction : music, sound, and the nonfiction aesthetic ; Holly Rogers / Resounding city films : Vertov, Ruttmann and early experiments with documentary sound aesthetics ; Carolyn Birdsall / Sounding the world : the role of music and sound in early "talking" newsreels ; James Deaville / Race, war, music and the problem of one tenth of our nation (1940) ; Julie Hubbert / Music, science, and educational film in post-war Britain ; Thomas F. Cohen / Reinventing the documentary : the early essay film soundtracks of Chris Marker ; Orlene Denice McMahon / Water music : scoring the silent world ; Mervyn Cooke / Music and the aesthetics of the recorded world : time, event and meaning in feature documentary ; John Corner / Irish sea power : a new version of Man of Aran (2009;1934) ; K.J. Donnelly / Excavating authenticity : surveying the indie rock-doc ; Jamie Sexton / More than background : ambience and sound-design in contemporary art documentary film ; Marion Leonard and Robert Strachan / Sonic ethnographies : Leviathan and new materialisms in documentary ; Selmin Kara and Alanna Thai