Smooth
music that is easy to listen to, from the middle of the road to everywhere
$37.71
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
21 August 2025
Summary
Smooth: The Art of Easy Listening in a Complex World
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 o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798765104361 |
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| Author: | Paul Hegarty |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Paul Hegarty
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.
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