Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

For the Beatles, 1967 marks a signal crossroads that would both transform the group’s career and place them on a trajectory towards their eventual disbandment. It was a year in which they exploded prevailing rock music demographics through the global onslaught and international success of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band beginning in June 1967. Yet it was also a period that saw them in a precarious state of flux throughout the summer and fall months, as the band attempted to recapture their artistic direction in the wake of Sgt. Pepper and the untimely death of manager Brian Epstein. The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love draws readers into that pivotal year in the life of the band. For the Fab Four, 1967 would see the band members part ways with psychedelia and the avant-garde through the trials and tribulations of the Magical Mystery Tour, a project that resulted in a series of classic recordings, while at the same time revealing the bandmates’ aesthetic vulnerabilities and failings as would-be filmmakers and auteurs.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-30
Mått:151 x 223 x 19 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
Antal sidor:254
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498534741

Utforska kategorier

Populärmusik inom Kultur
Tonsättare och låtskrivare inom Kultur
Musiker, sångare och grupper inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Kenneth Womack is professor of English and dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University.Kathryn B. Cox isdoctoral candidate in historical musicology at the University of Michigan.

Recensioner i media

Largely because of the Beatles, 1967 was the most important year for song since 1840. This study of the Beatles' work of 1967 offers deep and stimulating new research and speculation on the surrounding politics, communications media, commerce and the counterculture; inspiration ranging from non-western to avant garde musics; tension in the Beatles' masquerade; the role of gender in reception; and the album's influence on followers.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: It Was 50 Years Ago Today! - Kenneth WomackI. A Splendid Time Is Guaranteed for All1.Sgt. Pepper—with a Little Outsider Help—Taught the Band to Play - Jerry Zolten2.Turning Us On: Artifice as Authenticity in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - Mark Osteen3.The Sitar, Eastern Music and Philosophy, and the Beatles’ Progress Towards Rishikesh - Kathryn B. Cox4.The Act You’ve Known for All These Years: Discord and Harmony in the Third Space - Jacqueline EdmondsonII. The Summer of Love (and Commerce)5. “All You Need Is Love”: The Beatles in the Global Village - Kit O’Toole6.Golden Blunders: The Fall of the Beatles’ Apple and Its Unlikely Seed - Joe Rapolla7.The Wretched Life of a Lonely Heart: Sgt. Pepper’s Girls, Fandom, the Wilson Sisters, and Chrissie Hynde - Katie Kapurch8. “You Say You Want a Revolution”: The Beatles and the Political Culture of the 1960s - Kenneth L. CampbellIII. The Magical/Tragical History Tour9.Dying To Take You Away: The Beatles as Cinemati

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