Hearing with Your Eyes: Science Fiction Television and Hearing the Unseen

By: Reba A. Wissner (Montclair State University) // Hearing the unseen through non-diegetic music is nothing new to film. Although John Williams made the technique famous in his scores for Jaws (1975) and Star Wars (1977), it dates back to horror films of the 1930s and radio dramas of the 1940s. Early radio plays were …

Becoming an American B(r)and: Pre-Existing Popular Music in Television Commercials

By: Joanna Love (University of Richmond) // From What’s That Sound? An Introduction to Rock and its History, Fourth Edition, by John Covach and Andrew Flory (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015) Relationships between the American advertising and popular music industries date back to the turn of the twentieth century. Songs like “In My Merry …