The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3473-4 (ISBN)
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.
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 is doctoral candidate in historical musicology at the University of Michigan.
Introduction: It Was 50 Years Ago Today! - Kenneth Womack
I. A Splendid Time Is Guaranteed for All
1.Sgt. Pepper—with a Little Outsider Help—Taught the Band to Play - Jerry Zolten
2.Turning Us On: Artifice as Authenticity in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - Mark Osteen
3.The Sitar, Eastern Music and Philosophy, and the Beatles’ Progress Towards Rishikesh - Kathryn B. Cox
4.The Act You’ve Known for All These Years: Discord and Harmony in the Third Space - Jacqueline Edmondson
II. The Summer of Love (and Commerce)
5. “All You Need Is Love”: The Beatles in the Global Village - Kit O’Toole
6.Golden Blunders: The Fall of the Beatles’ Apple and Its Unlikely Seed - Joe Rapolla
7.The Wretched Life of a Lonely Heart: Sgt. Pepper’s Girls, Fandom, the Wilson Sisters, and Chrissie Hynde - Katie Kapurch
8. “You Say You Want a Revolution”: The Beatles and the Political Culture of the 1960s - Kenneth L. Campbell
III. The Magical/Tragical History Tour
9.Dying To Take You Away: The Beatles as Cinematic Auteurs - Robert Rodriguez
10.The End of Fantasy: The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour, and the Counterculture - Michael Frontani
11.Magical Mystery Tour: From EP to LP to CD - Bruce Spizer
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.06.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music |
| Co-Autor | Kenneth L. Campbell, Jacqueline Edmondson, Michael Frontani |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 549 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-3473-2 / 1498534732 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-3473-4 / 9781498534734 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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