Hearing Luxe Pop : Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music /

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Hearing Luxe Pop explores a deluxe-production aesthetic that has long thrived in American popular music. John Howland presents an alternative music history that centers on shifts in timbre and sound through innovative uses of media, orchestration, and arranging. He travels from symphonic jazz to the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Howland, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]
Colección:California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media ; 2
Temas:
Arrangement (Music) > United States > History > 20th century.
Instrumentation and orchestration > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular music > Production and direction > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular music > United States > History and criticism.
Popular music > United States > 20th century > Philosophy and aesthetics.
MUSIC / History & Criticism.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: From Paul Whiteman, to Barry White, Man
  • 1. Hearing Luxe Pop: Jay-Z, Isaac Hayes, and the Six Degrees of Symphonic Soul
  • 2. The (Symphonic) Jazz Age, Musical Vaudeville, and "Glorified" Entertainments
  • 3. Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook
  • 4. Defining Populuxe: Capitol Records and the Swinging Early Hi- Fi Era
  • 5. Phil Spector, Early 1960s "Teenage Symphonies," and the Fabulous Lower Middlebrow
  • 6. Mining AM (White) Gold: The 1960s MOR- Pop Foundations of 1970s Soft Rock
  • 7. Isaac Hayes and Hot Buttered (Orchestral) Soul, from Psychedelic to Progressive
  • 8. From Sophistisoul to Disco: Barry White and the Fall of Luxe Pop
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Index

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