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The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group's oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion: Reconsidering the White Album is the first-ever scholarly v...
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University of Michigan Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Ann Arbor, Michigan : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Beatles, the 1968 double LP more commonly known as the White Album, has always been viewed as an oddity in the group's oeuvre. Many have found it to be inconsistent, sprawling, and self-indulgent. The Beatles through a Glass Onion: Reconsidering the White Album is the first-ever scholarly volume to explore this seminal recording at length, bringing together contributions by some of the most eminent scholars of rock music writing today. It marks a reconsideration of this iconic but under-appreciated recording and reaffirms the White Album's significance in the Beatles' career and in rock |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 324 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472074082 |
| Index Number: | ML421 |
| CLC: | J657.695(561) |
| Call Number: | J657.695(561)/B369 |
| Contents: | Introduction. Part of Everything: The Beatles through a Glass Onion / Mark Osteen -- Part I. Umbrella: Pretexts and Contexts -- . . . Out/In . . .": The Beatles' Image in Transition during the "Year of the Barricades" / Michael R. Frontani -- Children of Nature: Origins of the Beatles' Tabula Rasa / Walter Everett -- Beatles Unplugged: The White Album in the Shadow of Rishikesh / John Kimsey -- Producing an Enigma for the Ages: George Martin within (and without) The Beatles / Kenneth Womack -- "Where Everything Flows": The Beatles and the Fruits of Psychedelia / Russell Reising -- Part II. S |