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Hearing Luxe Pop : glorification, glamour, and the middlebrow in American popular music / John Howland.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Howland, John, 1964- author.
Contributor:
JSTOR (Online Service)
Series:
California studies in music, sound, and media ; 2.
California studies in music, sound, and media ; 2
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
Popular music.
Arrangement (Music).
History.
Instrumentation and orchestration.
United States.
Popular music--Production and direction--United States--History--20th century.
Popular music--United States--20th century--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Instrumentation and orchestration--United States--History--20th century.
Arrangement (Music)--United States--History--20th century.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 381 pages).
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Place of Publication:
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction : from Paul Whiteman, to Barry White, man
Hearing Luxe Pop : Jay Z, Isaac Hayes, and the six degrees of symphonic soul
The (symphonic) Jazz age, musical vaudeville, and "glorified" entertainments
Jazz with strings : between Jazz and the great American songbook
Defining populuxe : capitol records and the swinging early Hi-Fi era
Phil Spector, early 1960s "teenage symphonies," and the fabulous lower middlebrow
Mining AM (white) gold : the 1960s MOR-pop foundations of 1970s soft rock
Isaac Hayes and Hot Buttered (Orchestral) Soul, from psychedelic to progressive
From sophistisoul to disco : Barry White and the fall of Luxe Pop.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 09, 2021).
Other Format:
Print version: Howland, John, 1964- Hearing Luxe Pop
ISBN:
9780520971646
0520971647
Publisher Number:
99988833311
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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