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Elevator music : a surreal history of Muzak, easy-listening, and other moodsong Cover Image Book Book

Elevator music : a surreal history of Muzak, easy-listening, and other moodsong / Joseph Lanza.

Lanza, Joseph. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0472089420 : PAP
  • ISBN: 9780472089420 : PAP
  • ISBN: 0472089420
  • ISBN: 9780472089420
  • Physical Description: viii, 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
  • Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-315), discography (p. 243-304) , and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Probing the Jell-O -- 2. Lullabies from Heaven and Hell: Mood Music's Antiquity -- 3. The "Canned" Avant-Garde -- 4. Umbilical Cords: The Birth of Muzak -- 5. The Push-Button Ballroom: Mood Music and Early Radio -- 6. Ghosts in the Elevator -- 7. Emotional Archives: Background Music in the Movies -- 8. The Moodiest Years on Record -- 9. World Music Originals: The 101 Strings and the Mystic Moods Orchestra -- 10. Walls Talk! -- 11. "Beautiful Music": The Rise of Easy-Listening FM -- 12. Violins from Space -- 13. Metarock -- 14. Elevator Noir -- 15. Who's Hearing Things? -- 16. The New Sound of 1984 -- Afterword: Channeling the Phantom Band.
Summary, etc.:
"With an arsenal of historical anecdotes and facts, Joseph Lanza sings seriously, with healthy doses of humor and wit, the praises of this misunderstood musical genre. Lanza traces mood music's mystifying presence from the mind-altering sirens who lured Odysseus to the harp David played to soothe King Saul, but the tale gets more intriguing in the early twentieth century, with Erik Satie's "furniture music" experiment, the birth of the Muzak Corporation, and various science fiction stories that featured mood music as a futuristic staple."--Jacket.

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