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Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema.

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Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema. Edited by Daniel Goldmark, Lawrence Kramer, and Richard Leppert. Berkeley. University of California Press, 2007. [vii, 324 p. ISBN-10 0520250699; ISBN-13 9780520280697. $60.] Illustrations, music examples, filmogra-phy, index.

In his seminal work. La memoire collective (| Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1950]; English edition, The Collective. Memory translated by Francis J. Ditter, Jr., and Vida Yazdi Ditter [New York: Harper & Row, 1980]), noted French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs described the overwhelming power of music upon collective and internal memory:

The sound makes one think about the object because the object is recognized through the sound; but only rarely might the object ... itself evoke the sound. On hearing the clinking of chains, one might think of a prison gang; or the jingling of bridles, the cracking of a whip, and the galloping of horses might remind one of a chariot race. Were such scenes to appear on a movie screen without a hidden orchestra accompanying and imitating these sounds, we would not evoke them on our own and the figures moving in silence would present a much less effective illusion. (The Collectve Memory, pp. 158-59)

The editors and contributors of Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema wish to advance this very notion in recognizing that...

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