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Smooth

Music That Is Easy to Listen to, from the Middle of the Road to Everywhere

Paul Hegarty (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-7651-0436-1 (ISBN)

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Smooth explores the ways in which music has sought to be easy, approachable, comforting and beguiling in its accessibility. From easy listening and exotica in the 1950s through jazz fusion, new age music, ambient and chill out, K-Pop, AOR and MOR, Japanese city pop and performance of high emotion alongside the warm and mellow bath of adult contemporary, Smooth analyses what easy listening can be across a range of often very poorly-defined genres. Global in scope, Smooth covers the music of the culture industry as aspiring to the universal and timeless, and evaluates how easy (and eased) listening works and how it affects the listener.

Paul Hegarty is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author and editor of 11 books that span critical and cultural theory, rock, experimental and noise music, as well as audiovisual art including Noise/Music (Bloomsbury, 2007), Rumour and Radiation (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Annihilating Noise (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is also Co-editor of Bloomsbury's Ex:Centrics series.

Introduction: Smoothness in Listening
1. Omnipresent Background
2. Function
3. Big Emotion
4. Smooth Jazz
5. Generic Transcendence: Adult Contemporary
6. Soft Power: AOR
7. Identification and the Group: K-Pop
8. Ambience/New age/Chill
9. Nostalgia, Melancholy and Japanese city pop
10. The Songbook: Timeless singers and songs
11. Christmas
Conclusion: All and Nothing

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.8.2025
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	979-8-7651-0436-1 / 9798765104361
Zustand	Neuware