Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media (California Studies in 20th-Century Music, #10)

by Michael Long

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"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 wide-ranging subjects as surf music, Yiddish theater, Hollywood film scores, Freddie Mercury, Alfred Hitchcock, psychedelic, rap, disco, and video games, Long proposes a holistic musicology in which disparate musical elements might be brought...Read more
  • ISBN10 0520228979
  • ISBN13 9780520228979
  • Publish Date 2 October 2008
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 August 2013
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 328
  • Language English