Smooth
Music That Is Easy to Listen to, from the Middle of the Road to Everywhere
Smooth
Music That Is Easy to Listen to, from the Middle of the Road to Everywhere
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Description
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.
Accessibility Information
Additional accessibility information
- PDF/UA-2, 1.4
- accessibility@bloomsbury.com
Hazards
The publication contains no hazards
Support for non-visual reading
Has alternative text descriptions for images
Navigation
- Page list to go to pages from the print source version
- Elements such as headings, tables, etc for structured navigation
- All or substantially all textual matter is arranged in a single logical reading order
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | 29 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798765104392 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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