Hearing Luxe Pop: Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music Volume 2

by John Howland

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520300114
• ISBN13: 9780520300118
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"