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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | California studies in 20th-century music ;
10. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.