Dialing In

Abstract

Long the poor relative to film sound, television sound has often found itself written off, or not written about at all (see Negus and Street 2002). Despite the seminal work of Tagg (1979) few others have taken up the baton of television sound studies. Indeed, even within television studies proper there has been little attention paid to sound-in much the same way as sound was ignored in film studies for decades and decades.

Introduction

“…There it was noted that there is much still to be studied and dissected from sound in television, particularly in programmes devoted to music (see Evans 2009): music-based documentaries and music video programmes being two of the clearest examples. Furthermore, the aesthetic construction of documentary sound is an area only just beginning to receive important exposure.…”