Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles: It Was Forty Years Ago Today (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series) PDF
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Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles It Was Forty Years Ago Today Edited by Olivier Julien Sgt. PePPer and the BeatleS This page has been left blank intentionally Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles It Was Forty Years ago today Edited by OlIvIer JulIen Universities of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), France © the Contributors 2008 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. the contributors have asserted their moral right under the Copyright, designs and Patents act, 1988, to be identified as the authors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing Company gower house Suite 420 Croft road 101 Cherry Street aldershot Burlington, vt 05401-4405 hampshire gu11 3hr uSa england ashgate website: http://www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles : it was forty years ago today. – (Ashgate popular and folk music series) 1. Beatles. Sgt. Pepper’s lonely hearts Club Band 2. Rock music – England – History and criticism I. Julien, Olivier 782.4’2166’0922 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles: it was forty years ago today / edited by Olivier Julien. p. cm. – (Ashgate popular and folk music series) Includes bibliographical references (p. 171) and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-6249-5 (alk. paper) 1. Beatles. Sgt. Pepper’s lonely hearts Club Band. I. Julien, Olivier, 1969– Ml421.B4S47 2007 782.42166092’2–dc22 2007035687 ISBn 978-0-7546-6249-5 (hbk) ISBn 978-0-7546-6708-7 (pbk) ISBN 978-0-7546-9854-8 (ebk.V) Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall. Bach musicological font developed by © Yo tomita. Contents List of figures and tables vii List of music examples ix Notes on contributors xi General editor’s preface xv Preface xvii ‘their production will be second to none’: an introduction to Sgt. Pepper 1 Olivier Julien 1 ‘Tangerine trees and marmalade skies’: cultural agendas or optimistic escapism? 11 Sheila Whiteley 2 Sgt. Pepper and the diverging aesthetics of lennon and McCartney 23 Terence O’Grady 3 Sgt. Pepper’s quest for extended form 33 Thomas MacFarlane 4 the sound design of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 45 Michael Hannan 5 the Beatles and Indian music 63 David Reck 6 the Beatles’ psycheclassical synthesis: psychedelic classicism and classical psychedelia in Sgt. Pepper 75 Naphtali Wagner 7 Cover story: magic, myth and music 91 Ian Inglis 8 Within and without: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and psychedelic insight 103 Russell Reising and Jim LeBlanc 9 the whatchamucallit in the garden: Sgt. Pepper and fables of interference 121 John Kimsey vi SGT. PEPPER AND THE BEATLES 10 The act you’ve known for all these years: a re-encounter with Sgt. Pepper 139 Allan Moore 11 ‘A lucky man who made the grade’: Sgt. Pepper and the rise of a phonographic tradition in twentieth-century popular music 147 Olivier Julien References 171 Index of names 181 Index of songs, albums, films and musical works 187 List of figures and tables Figures 6.1ab an interrupted ascending Urlinie and its twisted realization in ‘She’s leaving home’ 81 6.1c a detailed voice-leading graph of ‘She’s leaving home’ 81 6.2 a hidden counterpoint in the compound ‘ostinato’ of ‘lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ 84 6.3abc Three rival tonal interpretations of ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ (A major, D major, G major) 86 6.4 A detailed voice-leading graph of ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ according to the outline given in Figure 6.3b 88 Tables 3.1 the three-movement structure of the Abbey Road Medley 43 6.1 The key signatures of ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ according to Beatles 1993 and Beatles 1983 85 This page has been left blank intentionally List of music examples 3.1 ‘Getting Better’: electric guitar (intro) 38 3.2 ‘Fixing a Hole’: bass figure (0’16”–0’23”) 39 3.3 ‘Lovely Rita’: bass figure (coda) 39 5.1 the two phrases of the melody of ‘tomorrow never Knows’ 66 5.2 The scale of ‘Blue Jay Way’ (south-Indian ranjani raga) 70 5.3 The tihai-like riff in ‘Here Comes the Sun’ 73
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