Tuning in

Tuning In brings readers through the fascinating history, structure, and function of music as it has been used over the first fifty years of television: how it serves as a navigator through the flow of television, and how it conveys meaning to its viewers.

INTRODUCTION. WHAT WERE MUSICIANS SAYING ABOUT TELEVISION MUSIC DURING THE FIRST DECADE OF BROADCASTING?; I. Toward an Associative Theory of Television Music; 2. "Hello Out There in TV Land": Musical Agency in the Early Television Anthology Drama; 3. "And Now a Word from Our Sponsor: Musical Structure and Mediation in Early TV Commercials; 4. "Beam Me Up, Scottie!" Leitmotifs, Musical Topos, and Ascription in the Sci-Fi Drama; 5. "Go for your Guns:" Narrative Syntax and Musical Functions in the TV Western; 6. Tube of Pleasure, Tube of Bliss: Television Music as (Not-So) Drastic Experience; 7. "And Now Another Word from our Sponsor:" Strategies of Occultation and Imbuement in Musical Commercials; 8. "Just the Facts, Ma'am:" Style Change and Markedness in Police Drama Theme Music; 9. "The Truth is Out There:" Music in Modern/Postmodern Television; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX