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Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media
Michael Long
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Description for Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media
paperback. 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. This book proposes a holistic musicology in which disparate musical elements might be brought together in dynamic and humane conversation. Series: California Studies in 20th-Century Music. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 b/w photographs, 11 music examples. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
California Studies in 20th-Century Music
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520257207
SKU
V9780520257207
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About Michael Long
Michael Long is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Reviews for Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media
"This extraordinary work demands and deserves to be read and re-read, time and again, for the ideas presented here are innovative, thought provoking, and among the freshest and most exciting to emerge in recent years."
Ellen Flint American Music Teacher "Extremely well written and thought-provoking."
C. A. Traupman-Carr Choice "At the heart of this brilliant ... book is ... Read more
Ellen Flint American Music Teacher "Extremely well written and thought-provoking."
C. A. Traupman-Carr Choice "At the heart of this brilliant ... book is ... Read more