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Easy Listening Acid Trip: An Elevator Ride Through Sixties Psychedelic Pop

Easy Listening Acid Trip: An Elevator Ride Through Sixties Psychedelic Pop

Lanza, Joseph

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Radio20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Music

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ISBN10: 1627310959
ISBN13: 9781627310956
Publisher: Feral House
Published: Nov 10 2020
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 7.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.

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