[Commlist] New book: The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Japanese Animation

Marco Pellitteri is happy to bring the news about a new book on sound 
media and Japanese popular culture:
*Marco Pellitteri (Editor), /The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in 
Japanese Animation/. London: Palgrave: 2024, 1140 pages.*

Here is the link for you to better appreciate its contents and the wide 
range of the Contributors to it:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-0429-3

The *Frontmatter* and *Backmatter* are /_freely_/ downloadable here:

Frontmatter (including praise blurbs, ToC, Editorial note, Foreword, and 
long Introduction/Chapter 0), 100 pages:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm:978-981-97-0429-3/1

Backmatter (including Glossary, Afterword, and Index), 71 pages:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bbm:978-981-97-0429-3/1

*About the book:*
This handbook fills a substantial gap in the international academic 
literature on animation at large, on music studies, and on the aural 
dimensions of Japanese animation more specifically. It offers a unique 
contribution at the intersection between music and popular culture 
studies on the one hand, and research on Japanese animated productions 
(often called ‘anime’) as popular art forms and formats of 
entertainment, on the other. The book is designed as a reference work 
consisting of an organic sequence of theory-grounded essays on the 
development of music, sounds, and voices in Japanese animation for 
cinema and television since the 1930s. Each chapter deals with a phase 
of this history, focusing on composers and performers, films, series, 
and genres used in the soundtracks for animations made in Japan. The 
chapters also offer valuable interviews with prominent figures of music 
in Japanese animation, as well as chapter boxes clarifying specific aspects.


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