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Beautiful monsters : imagining the classic in musical media /

Beautiful Monsters explores the ways in which ""classical"" music made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream culture--in pop songs, movie scores, and print media. Beginning in the 1960s, Michael Long's entertaining and illuminating book surveys a complex cu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Long, Michael, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Colección:California studies in 20th-century music ; 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Registering the classic. The expressive vernacular ; Making overtures ; Yiddishkeit and the musical ethics of cinema
  • Envisioning the classic. Hearing monsters ; The fantastic, the picturesque, and the dimensions of nostalgia ; Listening in dark places ; Concertos, symphonies, rhapsodies (and an opera)
  • Conclusion: sitting down with mnemosyne.