The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media offers the first sustained exploration of the soundtrack album as a distinctive form of media. Soundtrack albums have been part of our media and musical landscape for decades, enduring across formats from vinyl and 8-tracks to streaming playlists. This book makes the case that soundtrack albums are more than promotional tools for films, television shows, or video games— they are complex media texts that reward a detailed analysis. The collection’s contributors explore a diverse range of soundtrack albums, from Super Fly to Stranger Things, revealing how these albums change our understanding of the music and film industries and the audio-visual relationships that drive them. An excellent resource for students of Music, Media Studies, and Film/Screen Media courses, The Soundtrack Album offers interdisciplinary perspectives and opens new areas for exploration in music and media studies.

In this first-of-a-kinf referencek, more than 8,000 Broadway and film soundtracks are listed alphabetically, with complete current pricing for each. Also includes a composer/conductor index, cast index, and valuable tips on how to grade records, sell collections, find rare records, and much more. 8-page color insert.

Book & 4 CDs. Text in English & German. The Wild West -- in its original sense with its rodeos and the working life since the 1940's of the real cowboys, up to the modern big city take on the Wild West lifestyle. This illustrated book shows the different aspects associated with this ideal and the fascinating mixture of tradition and modernity. A photographic microcosm of the world of country-and-western with historic black-and-white stills and magnificent snapshots. Music CDs: Offer a special selection presenting some of the great heroes of country music as well as rare gems that are worth discovering.

These efforts have been enabled by the neoliberal restructuring of the Indian state and economy since 1991.

A personal introspective by the influential pop songwriter and performer traces his Liverpool upbringing, artistic influences, creative pursuit of original punk sounds, and emergence in the MTV world.

The chief creative officer of Sony Music presents a candid assessment of his life and the past half-century of popular music from an insider's perspective, tracing his work with a wide array of stars and personalities.

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge ('The Brave-hearted Will Take the Bride'), universally known as DDLJ, opened to huge popular acclaim in India in 1995. This work points out that it is a paradoxical film which affirms old-fashioned values of pre-marital chastity and family authority, affirming the idea that Westernization need not affect an essential Indian identity.