The sound of tomorrow : how electronic music was smuggled into the mainstream /
Monterey pop festival, 1967. Bernie Krause and Paul Beaver demonstrated a Moog synthesizer to the assembled rock aristocracy, plugging into a surge of interest that would see synthesizers and electronic sound become commonplace in rock and pop early the following decade. And yet in 1967 electronic m...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Bloomsbury Pub.,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Monterey pop festival, 1967. Bernie Krause and Paul Beaver demonstrated a Moog synthesizer to the assembled rock aristocracy, plugging into a surge of interest that would see synthesizers and electronic sound become commonplace in rock and pop early the following decade. And yet in 1967 electronic music had already seeped into mainstream culture. For years, composers and technicians had been making electronic music for film and TV. Hitchcock had commissioned a theremin soundtrack for Spellbound (1945); The Forbidden Planet (1956) featured an entirely electronic score; |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography, discography and lists of television shows, etc. (pages [233]-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781623561536 1623561531 |