Widening the Horizon: Exoticism in Post-War Popular Music (Distributed for John Libbey & Co., Ltd) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1864620471 ISBN 13: 9781864620474

Publisher: John Libbey Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

During the 1950s and early 1960s, the musical exotica produced by performers such as Les Baxter, Martin Denny, and Arthur Lyman enjoyed international success. Widening the Horizon is the first in-depth analysis of the music and its cultural context.

About this title

Synopsis:

"Widening the Horizon" is the first in-depth study of exoticism in Post-War popular music. The opening chapters analyse the work of Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Korla Pandit and Yma Sumac - the musicians who developed (and exemplified) the style known as Exotica in the 1950s and 1960s. Others address more recent developments in musical exoticism which have revived and reflected the form, such as Haruomi Hosono's "Soy Sauce Music" trilogy; the work of Van Dyke Parkes, on albums such as "Tokyo Rose"; and the career of New Age populist Yanni. Contributors to this anthology include writers and academics from Australia, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom and the USA.

About the Author:

Philip Hayward, head of the Department of Media, Communication and Music Studies at Macquarie University (Sydney), is editor of the Perfect Beat: The Pacific Journal of Research into Contemporary Music and Popular Culture, and of several books including Music at the Borders and From Pop to Punk to Postmodernism.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1864620471
• ISBN 13: 9781864620474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Hayward Philip