In a major expansion of the conversation on music and film history, The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era draws together a wide-ranging collection of scholarship on music in global cinema during the transition from silent to sound films (the late 1920s to the 1940s). From the Contents: 36. Singing Japanese Modernity: a Genealogy of Performance Scenes in Early Talkies in Japan and their Heterogeneous Representation (Fumito Shirai); 37. Emerging from Silence: Shochiku, Ito, and Ozu’s Early Sound Films (James M. Doering).