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Hearing Luxe Pop : glorification, glamour, and the middlebrow in American popular music / John Howland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howland, John, 1964- author.
- 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).
- polychrome
- 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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