Dear Screen-L: The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of: Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media Jacob Smith is Lecturer in the Institute of Film and Television Studies in the Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham. http://go.ucpress.edu/VocalTracks This entertaining and innovative book focuses on vocal performance styles that developed in tandem with the sound technologies of the phonograph, radio, and sound film. Writing in a clear and lively style, Jacob Smith looks at these media technologies and industries through the lens of performance, bringing to light a fascinating nexus of performer, technology, and audience. Combining theories of film sound, cultural histories of sound technologies and industries, and theories of performance, Smith convincingly connects disparate and largely neglected performance niches to explore the development of a modern vocal performance. _Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media _demonstrates the voice to be a vehicle of performance, identity, and culture and illustrates both the interconnection of all these categories and their relation to the media technologies of the past century. Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/VocalTracks ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org