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Beautiful monsters : imagining the classic in musical media, Michael Long

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"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, psychedelia, 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 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."--BOOK JACKET
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
x, 311 p.
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
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9780520228979
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Beautiful monsters : imagining the classic in musical media
Title
Beautiful monsters
Title remainder
imagining the classic in musical media
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Michael Long
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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, psychedelia, 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 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."--BOOK JACKET
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1952-
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Long, Michael
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
ML3470
LC item number
.L64 2008
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
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  • Popular music and art music
  • Popular music
  • Motion picture music
  • Filmmusik
  • Popmusik
  • Klassische Musik
  • Motion picture music
  • Popular music
  • Popular music and art music
  • Motion picture music / History and criticism
  • Popular music / History and criticism
  • Popular music and art music
  • Filmmusik
  • Klassische Musik
  • Popmusik
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Beautiful monsters : imagining the classic in musical media, Michael Long
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index
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
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
x, 311 p.
Isbn
9780520228979
Isbn Type
(cloth : alk. paper)
Lccn
2007051009
Other physical details
ill.
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  • (OCoLC)184982489
  • (OCoLC)ocn184982489
Label
Beautiful monsters : imagining the classic in musical media, Michael Long
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-298) and index
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
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
x, 311 p.
Isbn
9780520228979
Isbn Type
(cloth : alk. paper)
Lccn
2007051009
Other physical details
ill.
System control number
  • (OCoLC)184982489
  • (OCoLC)ocn184982489

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