{"product_id":"hearing-luxe-pop-glorification-glamour-and-the-middlebrow-in-american-popular-music-2-california-studies-in-music-sound-and-media-9780520300118","title":"Hearing Luxe Pop Glorification Glamour and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Love this book for its championing of style, its critical edge, its humorous voice, its generosity, extravagance, and immersiveness.\" * Twentieth-Century Music *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHearing Luxe Pop \u003c\/i\u003e[is] underpinned by relevant notated examples and rich descriptions of the music, situated within discourses around sophistication, cosmopolitanism and glamourous lifestyles, which together make this book a dearly needed contribution to the field of popular music studies.\" * Swedish Journal of Music Research *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: From Paul Whiteman, to Barry White, Man\u003cbr\u003e 1 • Hearing Luxe Pop: Jay-Z, Isaac Hayes, and the Six Degrees of Symphonic Soul\u003cbr\u003e 2 • The (Symphonic) Jazz Age, Musical Vaudeville, and \"Glorified\" Entertainments\u003cbr\u003e 3 • Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook\u003cbr\u003e 4 • Defining Populuxe: Capitol Records and the Swinging Early Hi-Fi Era \u003cbr\u003e 5 • Phil Spector, Early 1960s \"Teenage Symphonies,\" and the Fabulous Lower Middlebrow\u003cbr\u003e 6 • Mining AM (White) Gold: The 1960s MOR-Pop Foundations of 1970s Soft Rock \u003cbr\u003e 7 • Isaac Hayes and Hot Buttered (Orchestral) Soul, from Psychedelic to Progressive \u003cbr\u003e 8 • From Sophistisoul to Disco: Barry White and the Fall of Luxe Pop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402912506199,"sku":"9780520300118","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hearing-luxe-pop-glorification-glamour-and-the-middlebrow-in-american-popular-music-2-california-studies-in-music-sound-and-media-9780520300118","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}