Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Since the advent of popular music studies, many scholars have discussed how popular music is different from classical music, while fewer scholars have attempted at in-depth studies on how these musics are also related to each other. Some have explored classical elements in specific popular genres, such as early popular music, jazz, progressive rock and heavy metal (see van der Merwe 1989; Schuller 1955; Covach 1997; Walser 1992, respectively). [...]it should be noted that such an important study on popular music came from a scholar of 14th-century Italian music.