Widening the Horizon :Exoticism in Post-War Popular Music

Widening the Horizon

Widening the Horizon :Exoticism in Post-War Popular Music

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Published: 22 September, 1999
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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.

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Type Book
ISBN13 9781864620474
ISBN10 1864620471
Number Of Pages 208
Item Weight 572 g
Publisher / Reseller John Libbey & Co
Format paperback
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Author's Bio

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.

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