Books by Joseph Lanza and Complete Book Reviews

Joseph Lanza, Author Chicago Review Press $14.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-55652-543-8
Lanza celebrates an oft-maligned musical genre-the ""honey-coated crooning, creamy choral harmonies, and rippling guitar"" of the likes of the Cowsills, Pat Boone, the Carpenters and ABBA-in this fond history. The author of Elevator Music: A Surreal
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Joseph Lanza, Author St. Martin's Press $22 (280p) ISBN 978-0-312-10540-2
In this entertaining book, Lanza ( Fragile Geometry: The Films, Philosophy, and Misadventures of Nicolas Roeg ) treats background music as a serious art form, tracing its evolution and arguing that there is more to the world of engineered sound than
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Joseph Lanza, Author Picador USA $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13063-3
Pop culture critic Lanza's willfully eccentric account of the history of mood music covers artists ranging from Lawrence Welk to Brian Eno. (Aug.)
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Joseph Lanza, Author Picador USA $22 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-15537-7
In a bizarre exploration of popular culture, Lanza (The Cocktail) invites readers on a bungee-cord ride through the second half of the 20th century. Using the theme of gravity, he loosely connects views so idiosyncratic that even the quirks have...
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Joseph Lanza. Skyhorse, $24.99 (228p) ISBN 978­1­5107­3790-7
This cultural history from critic Lanza (Phallic Frenzy: Ken Russell and His Films) is focused in its specifics and clever in its conceit. Surveying the American cultural landscape of the early 1970s through the lens of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror...
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