2. Sonic Effects: Sound and Fury in Forties Noir

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preview ix
4. Credits xxi
5. Introduction: Sound and (Source) Music 1
6. Prologue: Small World, Big Sign 19
7. 1. House Sound: Reverb, Offscreen Sound, and Voice-Over Narration in Early RKO Noir 24
8. 2. Sonic Effects: Sound and Fury in Forties Noir 53
9. 3. Audio Technologies: Intercoms and Dictaphones, Telephones and Radios, Phonographs and Jukeboxes 84
10. 4. Blues in the Night: Popular and Classical Instrumental Source Music 128
11. 5. Singing Detectives and Bluesmen, Black Jazzwomen and Torch Singers 164
12. 6. The Big Number (Side B): Killing Them Softly 192
13. 7. The Big Number (A Side): Siren City 222
14. Epilogue: Silences 251
15. Notes 255
16. Index 275