Hearing Luxe Pop
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Hearing Luxe Pop

Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music

John Howland

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Hearing Luxe Pop

Glorification, Glamour, and the Middlebrow in American Popular Music

John Howland

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About This Book

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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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780520971646
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Subvention
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: From Paul Whiteman, to Barry White, Man
  8. 1 • Hearing Luxe Pop: Jay-Z, Isaac Hayes, and the Six Degrees of Symphonic Soul
  9. 2 • The (Symphonic) Jazz Age, Musical Vaudeville, and “Glorified” Entertainments
  10. 3 • Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook
  11. 4 • Defining Populuxe: Capitol Records and the Swinging Early Hi-Fi Era
  12. 5 • Phil Spector, Early 1960s “Teenage Symphonies,” and the Fabulous Lower Middlebrow
  13. 6 • Mining AM (White) Gold: The 1960s MOR-Pop Foundations of 1970s Soft Rock
  14. 7 • Isaac Hayes and Hot Buttered (Orchestral) Soul, from Psychedelic to Progressive
  15. 8 • From Sophistisoul to Disco: Barry White and the Fall of Luxe Pop
  16. Afterword
  17. Notes
  18. Index
Citation styles for Hearing Luxe Pop

APA 6 Citation

Howland, J. (2021). Hearing Luxe Pop (1st ed.). University of California Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2572958/hearing-luxe-pop-pdf (Original work published 2021)

Chicago Citation

Howland, John. (2021) 2021. Hearing Luxe Pop. 1st ed. University of California Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/2572958/hearing-luxe-pop-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Howland, J. (2021) Hearing Luxe Pop. 1st edn. University of California Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2572958/hearing-luxe-pop-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

MLA 7 Citation

Howland, John. Hearing Luxe Pop. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2021. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.