Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media Volume 10

by Michael Long

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520257200
• ISBN13: 9780520257207
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"