Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Paul Whiteman, to Barry White, Man
1 • Hearing Luxe Pop: Jay-Z, Isaac Hayes, and the Six Degrees of Symphonic Soul
2 • The (Symphonic) Jazz Age, Musical Vaudeville, and "Glorified" Entertainments
3 • Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook
4 • Defining Populuxe: Capitol Records and the Swinging Early Hi-Fi Era 
5 • Phil Spector, Early 1960s "Teenage Symphonies," and the Fabulous Lower Middlebrow
6 • Mining AM (White) Gold: The 1960s MOR-Pop Foundations of 1970s Soft Rock 
7 • Isaac Hayes and Hot Buttered (Orchestral) Soul, from Psychedelic to Progressive 
8 • From Sophistisoul to Disco: Barry White and the Fall of Luxe Pop

Afterword
Notes 
Index

About the Author

John Howland is Professor of Musicology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is the author of Ellington Uptown and Duke Ellington Studies and cofounder of the journal Jazz Perspectives.

Reviews

"Love this book for its championing of style, its critical edge, its humorous voice, its generosity, extravagance, and immersiveness."
*Twentieth-Century Music*

"Hearing Luxe Pop [is] underpinned by relevant notated examples and rich descriptions of the music, situated within discourses around sophistication, cosmopolitanism and glamourous lifestyles, which together make this book a dearly needed contribution to the field of popular music studies."
*Swedish Journal of Music Research*