Introduction -- A different tune: Hollywood, popular music, and Elvis in the 1950s -- Orchestrating violence: music and masculinity in Scorsese's gangster films -- Two worlds: Sweet sweetback's baadasssss song and the dual diegesis -- The power chord goes to war: the Bruckheimer film, music and militainment -- Queering the road movie soundtrack: Gregg Araki's The living end -- John Travolta, a song and dance man in action -- Conclusion
