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The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:



Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media



Michael Long is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University 

at Buffalo, State University of New York.



http://go.ucpress.edu/Long



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, psychedelia, rap, disco, and video games, Long 

proposes a holistic musicology in which disparate musical elements 

might be brought together in dynamic and humane conversation. 

_Beautiful Monsters _brilliantly considers the ways in which critical 

commonplaces like nostalgia, sentiment, triviality, and excess might 

be applied with greater nuance to musical media and media reception. 

It takes into account twentieth-century media's capacity to suggest 

visual and acoustical depth and the redemptive possibilities that lie 

beyond the surface elements of filmic narrative or musical style, 

showing us what a truly global view of late twentieth-century music 

in its manifold cultural and social contexts might be like.



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