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Saying it with Songs: popular music and the coming of sound to Hollywood cinema

Using the American Film Institute Catalogue, the author reports that in the 1928– 29 season at least one song featured in a third of all Hollywood films, a fraction that increased to a half during the following season. These diffusion statistics are astonishing, and are a clear indicator of just how important the novelty of song was to the audience’s enthusiasm for the new medium of talking pictures. Furthermore, she notes that: