Buffy, ballads, and bad guys who sing: music in the worlds of Joss Whedon

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Welcome to the hellmouth : Buffy's music arc / Jacqueline Bach -- Theorizing television music as serial art : Buffy the vampire slayer and the narratology of the thematic score / Christopher Wiley -- Spike ensouled : the sonic transformations of a champion / Elizabeth A. Clendinning -- More than just a rock'n'roll reversal : tracking gender on Buffy the vampire slayer / Amanda Howell -- A sweet vamp : critiquing the treatment of race in Buffy and the American musical once more (with feeling) / Jeffrey Middents -- Concealing truths : rhetorical questions in "Once more, with feeling" / Cynthea Masson -- Singing their hearts out : the problem of performance in Buffy the vampire slayer and Angel / Janet K. Halfyard -- Angel's narrative score / Matthew Mills -- Still flyin'? : conventions, reversals, and musical meaning in Firefly / Stanley C. Pelkey II -- "My rifle's as bright as my sweetheart's eyes" : Joss Whedon's Firefly and the songs of the Clancy Brothers / Linda Jencson -- The meaning of "world music" in Firefly / Eric Hung -- "The status is not quo" : gender and performance in Dr. Horrible's sing-along blog / Kendra Preston Leonard.;Almost six years after the end of Joss Whedon's television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Buffy studies" and academic work on his expanding oeuvre continue to grow. Now with three popular television shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly, and the film Serenity all available on DVD, scholars are evaluating countless aspects of the Whedon universe. This book studies the significant role that music plays in these works.