Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ubiquitous Listening 2. Listening to Video Art and the Problem of Too Many Homelands 3. The Sound of a New Film Form 4. Musicals Hit the Small Screen: Attention, Listening, and TV Musical Episodes 5. Improvising Diasporan Identities: Armenian Jazz 6. Would You Like Some World Music with Your Latte?: Starbucks, Putumayo, and Distributed Tourism Conclusion Works Cited Notes Index

About the Author

Anahid Kassabian is the James and Constance Alsop Chair of Music at the Institute of Popular Music and the School of Music at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music (Routledge 2001).