Description: Further DetailsTitle: Beautiful MonstersCondition: NewSubtitle: Imagining the Classic in Musical MediaISBN-10: 0520257200EAN: 9780520257207ISBN: 9780520257207Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/02/2008Description: "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 cultural field and draws connections between 'classical music' (as the phrase is understood in the United States) and selected 'monster hits' of popular music. Addressing such wide-ranging subjects as surf music, Yiddish theater, Hollywood film scores, Freddie Mercury, Alfred Hitchcock, psychedelic, rap, disco, and video games, Long proposes a holistic musicology in which disparate musical elements might be brought together in dynamic and humane conversation. "Beautiful Monsters" brilliantly considers the ways in which critical commonplaces like nostalgia, sentiment, triviality, and excess might be applied with greater nuance to musical media and media reception.It takes into account twentieth-century media's capacity to suggest visual and acoustical depth and the redemptive possibilities that lie beyond the surface elements of filmic narrative or musical style, showing us what a truly global view of late twentieth-century music in its manifold cultural and social contexts might be like.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 23mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: Michael LongGenre: Music Dance & TheatreBook Series: California Studies in 20th-Century MusicRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Beautiful Monsters
Title: Beautiful Monsters
Subtitle: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media
ISBN-10: 0520257200
EAN: 9780520257207
ISBN: 9780520257207
Release Date: 10/02/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Name: Beautiful Monsters : Imagining the Classic in Musical Media
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2008
Subject: History & Criticism, Film / General, General, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Subject Area: Music, Performing Arts
Author: Michael Long
Item Length: 9 in
Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
