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- catalog abstract "Elevator music, a style that has maligned, misunderstood, or simply ignored, is here, for the first time, vindicated, explored, and exposed as the ectoplasm that soothes, haunts, and holds our world. Acclaimed author Joseph Lanza covers every elevator music incarnation: the Aeolian strains of antiquity, Gregorian chant, Erik Satie's "furniture music," Muzak, easy-listening, New Age, and "elevator noir." Emerging as the elevator music conservatory is Muzak Corporation. (Started in the twenties by a former World War brigadier general), which helped set tone for music's role in today's electronic superhighway. Not cultivated by a distinct aesthetic school, elevator music evolved partly by accident as it permeated many previously distinct musical genres and became postindustrial life's most authentic art form. Through in-depth discussion and interviews with such seemingly diverse composer/arrangers as Ray Conniff and Angelo Badalamenti, Elevator Music demonstrates how this moodsong (besides playing in elevators) elevates moods and induces a gravity-free vantage point, where life (like the movies) has soundtracks.".
- catalog contributor b5728611.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "(Started in the twenties by a former World War brigadier general), which helped set tone for music's role in today's electronic superhighway. Not cultivated by a distinct aesthetic school, elevator music evolved partly by accident as it permeated many previously distinct musical genres and became postindustrial life's most authentic art form. Through in-depth discussion and interviews with such seemingly diverse composer/arrangers as Ray Conniff and Angelo Badalamenti,".
- catalog description "1. Probing the Jell-O -- 2. Lullabies from Heaven and Hell: Mood Music's Antiquity -- 3. The "Canned" Avant-Garde -- 4. Umbilical Chords: 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. Elevator Noir -- 14. Metarock -- 15. Who's Hearing Things? -- 16. Global Theming.".
- catalog description "Elevator Music demonstrates how this moodsong (besides playing in elevators) elevates moods and induces a gravity-free vantage point, where life (like the movies) has soundtracks.".
- catalog description "Elevator music, a style that has maligned, misunderstood, or simply ignored, is here, for the first time, vindicated, explored, and exposed as the ectoplasm that soothes, haunts, and holds our world. Acclaimed author Joseph Lanza covers every elevator music incarnation: the Aeolian strains of antiquity, Gregorian chant, Erik Satie's "furniture music," Muzak, easy-listening, New Age, and "elevator noir." Emerging as the elevator music conservatory is Muzak Corporation.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) , discography (p. 234-254) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 280 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0312105401 :".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog subject "781.5 20".
- catalog subject "Environmental music History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "ML3920 .L35 1994".
- catalog subject "Music Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Music, Influence of.".
- catalog subject "Muzak (Trademark)".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Probing the Jell-O -- 2. Lullabies from Heaven and Hell: Mood Music's Antiquity -- 3. The "Canned" Avant-Garde -- 4. Umbilical Chords: 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. Elevator Noir -- 14. Metarock -- 15. Who's Hearing Things? -- 16. Global Theming.".
- catalog title "Elevator music : a surreal history of Muzak, easy-listening, and other moodsong / Joseph Lanza.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".