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Beautiful monsters : imagining the classic in musical media / Michael Long.
LIBRA ML3470 .L64 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Long, Michael, 1952-
- Series:
- California studies in 20th-century music ; 10.
- California studies in 20th-century music ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music and art music.
- Popular music--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Motion picture music--History and criticism.
- Motion picture music.
- Physical Description:
- x, 311 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Prelim. p.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-298) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520228979
- 0520228979
- 9780520257207
- 0520257200
- OCLC:
- 184982489
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