| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface ; Introduction: Pop Goes the Avant-Garde; Part One: All You Need Is Studio Time (or, the Ballad of John and Yoko): The Beatles; 1. Rebranding the Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967); 2. Music Television: Magical Mystery Tour (1967) ; 3. The Dialectic of Lennon/McCartney: The Beatles (a.k.a. The White Album) (1968); 4. One Bad Apple: John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Avant-Garde Turn; 5. Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970) |
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Part Two: No Commercial Potential: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention6. Zappa in Context: Pal Recording Studio and The Steve Allen Show (1963); 7. Motherly Summer of Love: Freak Out! (1966) ; 8. Nothing Succeeds Like Excess: Absolutely Free (1967) and "Rock Theater"; 9. The Conscience of a (Practical) Conservative: We're Only in It for the Money (1968); 10. Project/Object: Zappa, Mass Culture and Postmodernism; Part Three: All Tomorrow's Parties: The Velvet Underground |
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11. Andy Says: The Exploding Plastic Inevitable and The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)12. The Black Album: White Light/White Heat (1968) ; 13. Playing It Safe: The Velvet Underground (1969) and Loaded (1970); Conclusion: The Avant-Garde Goes Pop; Discography ; Chapter Notes ; Bibliography ; Index |
| Summary |
"This book examines these artists' relationship to the historical avant-garde and neo-avant-garde, considering their work in light of debates about modernism versus postmodernism. The author analyzes how performers used dissonance and noise within music, the role of social commentary in songs, and how experiments with concert and studio performance proceeded in cultural and political unrest"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Zappa, Frank -- Criticism and interpretation
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Zappa, Frank fast |
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Beatles
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Velvet Underground (Musical group)
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Beatles fast |
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Velvet Underground (Musical group) fast |
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Popular music -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism
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Avant-garde (Music)
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Avant-garde (Music)
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Popular music
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781476624037 |
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1476624038 |
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