Easy Listening Acid Trip - Couverture souple

Lanza, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1627310959 ISBN 13 : 9781627310956

Editeur : Feral House,U.S., 2020

Synopsis

In his acclaimed book Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong, author Joseph Lanza explored the forbidden beauty and social importance of an otherwise shunned musical category. Now, in Easy-Listening Acid Trip, he pushes the boundaries further by taking his subject into altered states, showing how psychedelic pop (as opposed to the ear-grinding jams of 'acid rock') offered other worlds and strange sounds that took listeners through a mind-bending time travel back to vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley, British Music Hall, and the melodic traditions that made songs hits before your grandmother was born. These influences, in turn, inspired many easy-listening arrangers and conductors to reinterpret the songs into instrumental wonders that were often just as (if not more) surreal. Easy-Listening Acid Trip takes readers on a journey that includes the Hollyridge Strings' haunting version of the Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever,' Paul Mauriat's lush treatment of Scott McKenzie's 'San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),' and Mariano and the Unbelievables' baroque-pop tribute to the Lemon Pipers 'Green Tambourine.' The book also provides numerous anecdotes, such as how quickly after the Strawberry Alarm Clock released their 1967 hit 'Incense and Peppermints,' Muzak recorded an instrumental version by Charles Grean and His Orchestra that kept the electric guitar but recontoured the tune with harps, horns, flutes, a tambourine, and other effects for offices, restaurants, supermarkets, and of course, elevators. Delving into the songs along with the international roster of composers, arrangers, and conductors who recorded them, Easy- Listening Acid Trip celebrates the trippy paradox linking psychedelia to easy-listening: a netherworld where the Beatles meet The Percy Faith Strings, where Donovan meets David Rose and His Orchestra, and where other flower-power-pop favourites meld with the likes of Ferrante and Teicher, Lawrence Welk, and the Mystic Moods Orchestra.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joseph Lanza, who writes mostly about film and popular music, is perhaps best known for his pioneering and critically acclaimed book ELEVATOR MUSIC: A SURREAL HISTORY OF MUZAK, EASY-LISTENING, AND OTHER MOODSONG.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Feral House,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1627310959
• ISBN 13: 9781627310956
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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