Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media by Michael Long (Engl

Description: Beautiful Monsters by Michael Long 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. This book proposes a holistic musicology in which disparate musical elements might be brought together in dynamic and humane conversation. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Longs 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 brilliantly 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 medias 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. Flap "A virtuoso performance. In this work of vastly erudite cultural imagination, Long both dazzles and illuminates. He has fashioned, in elegant prose, a thrilling mosaic of critical interpretation, one that is assured a central place on the leading edge of music scholarship."--Albin Zak, author of T he Poetics of Rock: Cutting Tracks Making Records Author Biography Michael Long is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Registering the Classic 1. The Expressive Vernacular 2. Making Overtures 3. Yiddishkeit and the Musical Ethics of Cinema Part Two. Envisioning the Classic 4. Hearing Monsters 5. The Fantastic, the Picturesque, and the Dimensions of Nostalgia 6. Listening in Dark Places 7. Concertos, Symphonies, Rhapsodies (and an Opera) Conclusion: Sitting Down with Mnemosyne Notes Selected Bibliography Index Review "This extraordinary work demands and deserves to be read and re-read, time and again, for the ideas presented here are innovative, thought provoking, and among the freshest and most exciting to emerge in recent years." -- Ellen Flint American Music Teacher "Extremely well written and thought-provoking." -- C. A. Traupman-Carr Choice "At the heart of this brilliant ... book is an aesthetic vision of what classical music has come to mean." Journal Of The Society For American Music (Jsam) "Long has succeeded in that most welcome of humanistic scholarly achievements: to take a much-studied and familiar thing and find an original and persuasive way to see it, to hear it, and to understand it." Journal Of Musicological Research "Beautiful Monsters is...doubly significant; it not only problematises the boundary between popular music and classical music, but also questions the disciplinary boundary between popular music studies and musicology." Popular Music Review Quote "This extraordinary work demands and deserves to be read and re-read, time and again, for the ideas presented here are innovative, thought provoking, and among the freshest and most exciting to emerge in recent years."-- American Music Teacher Details ISBN0520257200 Author Michael Long Short Title BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520257200 ISBN-13 9780520257207 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Imagining the Classic in Musical Media Country of Publication United States Series California Studies in 20th-Century Music Place of Publication Berkerley Birth 1952 DOI 10.1604/9780520257207 Series Number 10 UK Release Date 2008-10-02 AU Release Date 2008-10-02 NZ Release Date 2008-10-02 US Release Date 2008-10-02 Pages 328 Publication Date 2008-10-02 DEWEY 780 Illustrations 2 b-w photographs, 11 music examples Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159622421;

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