Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles : it was forty years ago today / edited by Olivier Julien.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Julien, Olivier, 1969-

Series:

• Ashgate popular and folk music series.
• Ashgate popular and folk music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Physical Description:

xviii, 190 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Ashgate, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first concept album in the history of popular music, the soundtrack of the Summer of Love or 'Hippy Symphony No. 1': Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is first and foremost the album that gave rise to 'hopes of progress in pop music' (The Times, 29 May 1967). Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles commemorates the fortieth anniversary of this masterpiece of British psychedelia by addressing issues that will help put the record in perspective. These issues include: reception by rock critics and musicians, the cover, lyrics, songwriting, formal unity, the influence of non-European music and art music, connections with psychedelia and, more generally, the sociocultural context of the 1960s, production, sound engineering and musicological significance. The contributors are world renowned for their work on the Beatles: they examine Sgt. Pepper from the angle of disciplines such as musicology, ethnomusicology, history, sociology, literature, social psychology and cultural theory.

Contents:

• Tangerine trees and marmalade skies: cultural agendas or optimistic escapism? / Sheila Whiteley
• Sgt. Pepper and the diverging aesthetics of Lennon and McCartney / Terence O'Grady
• Sgt. Pepper's quest for extended form / Thomas MacFarlane
• The sound design of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Michael Hannan
• The Beatles and Indian music / David Reck
• The Beatles' psycheclassical synthesis: psychedelic classicism and classical psychedelia in Sgt. Pepper / Naphtali Wagner
• Cover story: magic, myth and music / Ian Inglis
• Within and without: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and psychedelic insight / Russell Reising and Jim LeBlanc
• The whatchamucallit in the garden: Sgt. Pepper and fables of interference / John Kimsey
• The act you've known for all these years: a re-encounter with Sgt. Pepper / Allan Moore
• A lucky man who made the grade': Sgt. Pepper and the rise of a phonographic tradition in twentieth-century popular music / Olivier Julien.

Notes:

• "An Ashgate book"--cover.
• "First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-179) and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 1-317-05674-4
• 1-317-05673-6
• 1-315-60853-7
• 1-282-24380-2
• 9786612243806
• 0-7546-9854-8

OCLC:

950005265