Product Description: From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical representations of African Americans, from blacks and whites in blackface to black-cast musicals to jazz shorts, from sorrow songs to show tunes to bebop and beyond...read more

Product Description: From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music. Soundtrack Available fills this gap, as its contributors provide detailed analyses of individual films as well as historical overviews of genres, styles of music, and approaches to film scoring...read more

Product Description: This collection of some of the most intimate portraits of the Beats includes interviews, letters, excerpts of their work and photographs. An excellent chronicle of a unique era.

Product Description: This collection of some of the most intimate portraits of the Beats includes interviews, letters, excerpts of their work and photographs. An excellent chronicle of a unique era.

Interviews, letters, and memoirs explore the lives and writings of beat authors such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs