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Hearing Luxe Pop - Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music (Hardcover)
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Hearing Luxe Pop - Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music (Hardcover)
Series: California Studies in Music, Sound, and Media, 2
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Hearing Luxe Pop explores a deluxe-production aesthetic that has
long thrived in American popular music, in which popular-music
idioms are merged with lush string orchestrations and big-band
instrumentation. John Howland presents an alternative music history
that centers on shifts in timbre and sound through innovative uses
of orchestration and arranging, traveling from symphonic jazz to
the Great American Songbook, the teenage symphonies of Motown to
the "countrypolitan" sound of Nashville, the sunshine pop of the
Beach Boys to the blending of soul and funk into 1970s disco, and
Jay-Z's hip-hop-orchestra events to indie rock bands performing
with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. This book attunes readers to hear
the discourses gathered around the music and its associated images
as it examines pop's relations to aspirational consumer culture,
theatricality, sophistication, cosmopolitanism, and glamorous
lifestyles.
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