... of the University of California Puccini gramophone New York voice Italy Gramophone Voices: Puccini and Madama Butterfly in New York, ca. 1907 DITLEV RINDOM On 21 February 1907, Giacomo Puccini recorded a message for the Columbia Phonograph Company in their offices in New York. Accompanied by his wife...

... that logically carries the voices from outdoors to indoors to the interior life of a character, usually a white woman. Director D. W. Griffith expands this use of diegetic singing in ways that will later be the province of nondiegetic underscore in his first sound film, Abraham Lincoln (1930). Shirley Temple's...

... the special attention of folklorists because of the remarkable and indeed sensational role played in it by music: its narrative reflects a fascinating ideology of the cultural power of music as the voice of the oppressed, while its musical interludes, chilling spectral songs sung by the bone of the murder...