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About the Authors
Rebecca Coyle teaches in the Media Program at Southern Cross University, Australia, and has edited two anthologies on Australian cinema soundtracks, Screen Scores (1998) and Reel Tracks (2005). She is currently researching film music production within an Australian Research Council funded project, is Research Director for the School of Arts and Social Sciences, and has recently edited a special issue of Animation Journal (published 2009).
Jon Fitzgerald teaches in the contemporary music programme at Southern Cross University, Australia. He has previously written on a variety of musical and screen sound topics and he is the author of Popular Music Theory and Musicianship (1999/2003). He is also an experienced performer and composer.
Daniel Goldmark is Associate Professor of music at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the series editor of the Oxford Music/Media Series, and is the author and/or editor of several books on animation, film, and music, including Tunes for ’Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon (2005).
Janet K. HalfHalfJanet yaryaryarddd is Director of Undergraduate Studies at Birmingham City University Conservatoire. Her publications include Danny Elfman’s Batman: A Film Score Guide (2004), an edited volume on Luciano Berio’s Sequenzas (2007), and a wide range of essays on music in film and cult televison.
Philip Haywarddd is Director of Research Training at Southern Cross University, Aus- tralia and an adjunct professor in the Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. His previous screen sound books include Off the Planet: Music, Sound and Science Fiction Cinema (2005) and Terror Tracks: Music, Sound and Horror Cinema (2009).
KKKentarentarentaro ImadaImadao is a research fellow in the Kyoto City University of Arts Research Centre for Japanese Traditional Music. He completed his doctorate at Osaka University, with a study of incidental music for silent film. His entry on film and animation music in Japan appears in the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: East Asia – China, Japan and Korea (2001).
Ian InglisInglisIan is Reader in Popular Music Studies at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. His books include The Beatles, Popular Music and Society (2000), Popular x DrawnAbout theto soundAuthors
Music and Film (2003), Performance and Popular Music (2006), The Words and Music of George Harrison (2010), and Popular Music and Television in Britain (2010).
KKKyokyokyoko KKo oizumioizumioizumi is an associate professor in the School of Social Information Studies at Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan. Her chapter ‘Creative Soundtrack Expres- sion: Tôru Takemitsu’s Score for Kwaidan’ appeared in Terror Tracks: Music, Sound and Horror Cinema (2009), edited by Philip Hayward, and she is on the editorial board of Screen Sound.
Neil LernerLernerNeil , Associate Professor of Music at Davidson College, USA, regularly teaches courses on music history and on film and media studies. After a dissertation on music in selected US documentaries, he has written essays on music in a variety of films and television shows. He serves on the editorial boards of American Music and Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.
Peter MorrisMorrisPeter is Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music and Sound Recording at the University of Surrey. He is a specialist in music for film, particularly animated cartoons, technology in the creative process and the works of Stephen Sondheim. After training in piano and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, he spent many years as a jobbing keyboard player and musical director in Europe and the United States, primarily for theatre works but also as a jazz performer and solo pianist.
Janice Esther Tulkulkulk is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mi’kmaq College Institute at Cape Breton University, Canada. Her current research revolves around the relationship between expressive culture, Mi’kmaw soundscapes, and colonial encounter. She is the producer of Welta’q – “It Sounds Good”: Historic Recordings of the Mi’kmaq (2009).
Paul WWPaul ellsellsells is Director of the Animation Academy in the School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK. He has published widely in the field of animation studies, including Understanding Animation (2nd edn 2009), Re-Imagining Animation: The Changing Face of the Moving Image (2008, with Johnny Hardstaff), and The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons and Culture (2009). He is also an established writer and director for radio, television and theatre, and conducts workshops worldwide based on his book, Scriptwriting (2007).
Aki YYAki amasakiamasakiamasaki is a part-time lecturer in Sociology at Kansai University, Japan. Her papers include ‘Selling Sound Track’, published in Annals of Human Sciences (in Japanese, 2007). Introduction xi
To the Coyle (gar)goyles – Jacqueline, Alice, Jinny and Gabrielle – and to Stephen, for those shared times wishing upon a star