Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles
Subtitle: it was forty years ago today
By: edited by Olivier Julien.
Contributors: Julien, Olivier, 1969-
Series: Ashgate popular and folk music series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780754662495; 9780754667087
Subjects: Beatles
Description: Olivier Julien commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Beatles album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' by addressing issues that will help put the album in perspective; issues such as the cover, lyrics, formal unity, connections with psychedelia and, more generally, the sociocultural context of the 1960s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Tangerine trees and marmalade skies : cultural agendas or optimistic escapism? / Sheila Whiteley; title: Sgt. Pepper and the diverging aesthetics of Lennon and McCartney / Terence O'Grady; title: Sgt. Pepper's quest for extended form / Thomas MacFarlane; title: The sound design of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Michael Hannan; title: The Beatles and Indian music / David Reck; title: The Beatles' psycheclassical synthesis : psychedelic classicism and classical psychedelia in Sgt. Pepper / Naphtali Wagner; title: Cover story : magic, myth and music / Ian Inglis; title: Within and without : Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band and psychedelic insight / Russell Reising and Jim LeBlanc; title: The whatchamucallit in the garden : Sgt. Pepper and fables of interference / John Kimsey; title: The act you've known for all these years : a re-encounter with Sgt. Pepper / Allan Moore; title: A lucky man who made the grade : Sgt. Pepper and the rise of the phonographic tradition in twentieth-century popular music / Olivier Julien.