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Abel, Richard, and Rick Altman.  The Sounds of Early Cinema<\/em>.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Altman, Rick.  Silent Film Sound. <\/em>New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bandy, Mary Lea, ed.  The Dawn of Sound<\/em>.  New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barrios, Richard.\u00a0\u00a0A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berliner, Todd, and Philip Furia. \u201cThe Sounds of Silence: Songs in Hollywood Films since the 1960s.\u201d\u00a0Style<\/em>\u00a036, no. 1 (2002): 19\u201335.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bullins, Jeffrey.\u00a0\u00a0Sound in the American Horror Film<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Jefferson: McFarland, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cameron, Evan William, ed.  Sound and the Cinema: The Coming of Sound to American Film<\/em>.  Pleasantville, NY: Redgrave, 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eyman, Scott.  The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution<\/em>.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faulkner, Robert R.\u00a0\u00a0Hollywood Studio Musicians: Their Work and Careers in the Recording Industry<\/em>.\u00a0 Chicago: Aldine and Atherton, 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flinn, Carol. \u201cThe Most Romantic Art of All: Music in the Classical Hollywood Cinema.\u201d\u00a0Cinema Journal<\/em>\u00a029, no. 4 (1990): 35\u201350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabbard, Krin. Jammin’ at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema. <\/em>Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gomery, Douglas.\u00a0\u00a0The Coming of Sound to American Cinema: A History of the Transformation of an Industry<\/em>.\u00a0 Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hong, Seung Min. \u201cContrapuntal Aurality: Exceptional Sound in Hollywood Monster Horror Films during the Early Sound Era.\u201d\u00a0Journal of Popular Film & Television<\/em>\u00a047, no. 4 (2019): 215\u2013226.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kraft, James P. \u201cMusicians in Hollywood: Work and Technological Change in Entertainment Industries, 1926-1940.\u201d\u00a0Technology and Culture<\/em>\u00a035:2 (April 1994): 289-314.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastra, James.\u00a0\u00a0Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity.\u00a0<\/em>New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maurice, Alice. “Cinema at Its Source: Synchronizing Race and Sound in the Early Talkies.”\u00a0Camera Obscura<\/em>\u00a017, no. 1 (2002): 1-71.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meckna, Michael. \u201cLouis Armstrong in the Movies, 1931\u20131969.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Popular Music and Society<\/em>\u00a029 (July 2006): 359\u201373.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slowik, Michael. “Experiments in Early Sound Film Music: Strategies and Rerecording, 1928\u20131930.”\u00a0American Music<\/em>\u00a031, no. 4 (2013): 450-474.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slowik, Michael. “Diegetic Withdrawal and Other Worlds: Film Music Strategies before\u00a0King Kong<\/em>, 1927\u20131933.”\u00a0Cinema Journal<\/em>\u00a053, no. 1 (2013): 1-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slowik, Michael. \u201cDislocation and Nostalgia: Jazz and Classical Music in Hollywood Postwar Readjustment Films, 1946\u20131949.\u201d\u00a0Music and the Moving Image<\/em>\u00a011, no. 2 (2018): 3\u201322.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slowik, Michael. “Revealing Reality: Fan Magazine Rhetoric, Sound Technology, and Stardom in the Early Sound Era.”\u00a0Journal of Film and Video<\/em>\u00a070, no. 2 (2018): 30-45.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Jeff.  The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music.  <\/em>New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snelson, Tim. \u201cThey\u2019ll Be Dancing in the Aisles: Youth Audiences, Cinema Exhibition, and the Mid-1930s Swing Boom.\u201d  Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em> 37:3 (2017): 455-474.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring, Katherine. “”To Sustain Illusion is All That is Necessary”: The Authenticity of Song Performance in Early American Sound Cinema.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 23, no. 3 (2011): 285-299.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring, Katherine. \u00a0Saying It with Songs: Popular Music and the Coming of Sound to Hollywood Cinema<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0New York: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stadel, Luke. “Natural Sound in the Early Talkie Western.”\u00a0Music, Sound, and the Moving Image<\/em>\u00a05, no. 2 (2011): 113-136.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanfield, Peter.\u00a0\u00a0Body and Soul: Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilsbacher, Greg. “Alternate Tracks: Photophone and the Film Industry’s Conversion to Sound.”\u00a0Film History\u00a0<\/em>35, no. 1 (2023): 61-103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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