John Howland
Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music
Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music
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Hearing Luxe Pop explores the deluxe-production aesthetic in American popular music, focusing on shifts in timbre and sound through innovative orchestration and arranging, from symphonic jazz to disco, and Jay-Z's hip-hop-orchestra events to indie rock bands. It examines pops' relations to aspirational consumer culture, theatricality, sophistication, cosmopolitanism, and glamorous lifestyles.
Format: Hardback
Length: 394 pages
Publication date: 08 June 2021
Publisher: University of California Press
Hearing Luxe Pop delves into a captivating deluxe-production aesthetic that has long flourished in American popular music, seamlessly blending popular-music idioms with lavish string orchestrations and expansive big-band instrumentation. Author John Howland presents an alternative music history that revolves around innovative orchestration and arranging techniques, traversing a diverse range of genres. 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 fusion of soul and funk in 1970s disco, and even Jay-Z's hip-hop-orchestra events to indie rock bands collaborating with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, this book invites listeners to immerse themselves in the discourses surrounding music and its associated imagery. Through its examination of pop's relationships with aspirational consumer culture, theatricality, sophistication, cosmopolitanism, and glamorous lifestyles, Hearing Luxe Pop offers a fresh perspective on the rich tapestry of popular music.
Weight: 680g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780520300101
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