Easy-Listening Acid Trip av Joseph Lanza

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In his acclaimed book <i>Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong</i>, author Joseph Lanza explored the forbidden beauty and social importance of an otherwise shunned musical category. Now, in <i>Easy-Listening Acid Trip</i>, he pushes the boundaries further by taking his subject into altered states, showing how psychedelic pop (as opposed to the ear-grinding jams of ¿acid rock¿) offered other worlds and strange sounds that took listeners through a mind-bending time travel back to vaudeville, Tin Pan Alley, British Music Hall, and the melodic traditions that made songs hits before your grandmother was born. These influences, in turn, inspired many easy-listening arrangers and conductors to reinterpret the songs into instrumental wonders that were often just as (if not more) surreal.<br><i>Easy-Listening Acid Trip</i> takes readers on a journey that includes the Hollyridge Strings'' haunting version of the Beatles¿ ¿Strawberry Fields Forever,¿ Paul