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Mazzy Star’s So Tonight That I Might See
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Description
Anthony Gomez III explores how Mazzy Star become a call and response dream pop act that blended surrealism, sixties psychedelia, the ranchera tradition, and the Nashville Sound in the contexts of Latin music and lead singer Hope Sandoval's Mexican American upbringing.
Mazzy Star's So Tonight That I Might See was a slow, reluctant success. Pushed by Capital Records as an album for teenagers to make out during, as a record about girlhood, and as music for those uninterested in the era's male aggression, the album's reputation has been plagued by these forced connections ever since.
But by tracing the hurried development of So Tonight That I Might See and the band's efforts to bend the record company's wants to their will, this book revisits and challenges these imposed narratives that have overshadowed the band's interest in the mystical, the American Southwest, ranchera music from the mid-century, and a surrealism which summons the strange, dark shadows of everyday life in the US.
Table of Contents
2. Bells Ring
3. Five String Serenade
4. Into Dust
Product details
| Published | Mar 05 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 144 |
| ISBN | 9798765133552 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 6 x 5 inches |
| Series | 33 1/3 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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