Rock, counterculture and the avant-garde, 1966-1970
Subtitle: how the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground defined an era
By: Doyle Greene
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781476662145; 9781476624037
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Beatles; Velvet Underground (Musical group); Rock music; Avant-garde (Music); Avant-garde (Aesthetics); History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; History
Other titles: How the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground defined an era
Description: Examines the artists' relationship to the historical avant-garde (Artaud, Brecht, Dada) and neo-avant-garde (Warhol, Pop Art, minimalism), .
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-216), discography (pages 187-189), and index.
Table of contents: title: All you need is studio time (or, The ballad of John and Yoko) : The Beatles. Rebranding the Beatles : Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967); title: Music television : Magical Mystery Tour (1967); title: The dialectic of Lennon/McCartney : The Beatles (a.k.a. The white album) (1968); title: One bad apple : John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the avant-garde turn; title: Breaking up is hard to do : Abbey Road (1969) and Let it be (1970); title: No commercial potential : Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. Zappa in context : Pal Recording Studio and The Steve Allen show (1963); title: Motherly Summer of Love : Freak out! (1966); title: Nothing succeeds like excess : Absolutely free and "rock theater" (1967); title: The conscience of a (practical) conservative : We're only in it for the money (1968); title: Project/Object : Zappa, mass culture and postmodernism; title: All tomorrow's parties : The Velvet Underground. Andy says : The Exploding Plastic Inevitable and The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967); title: The black album : White light/White heat (1968); title: Playing it safe : The Velvet Underground (1969) and Loaded (1970); title: Conclusion. The avant-garde goes pop.