The White album’s revolutions: avant-gardism, New Left and pop music

Authors

  • José Adriano Fenerick
  • Carlos Eduardo Marquioni

Abstract

The Beatles’ White Album can be seen, simultaneously and paradoxically, as a movement forward and a denial of their previous work (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band). In this paper, the White Album is analyzed as the materialization of feeling structure, that was being reconfigured, as far as both the aesthetic economy it brought – from its cover to the songs recorded (making its reading easier due to an approachable repertory) – and the duality in the “Revolution” (1 and 9) registers are concerned. While the first song suggests musical moderation and political lack of definition, the second one includes differentiated aesthetic experiments in lyrics and music, even in comparison with other experimental Beatles recorded songs. According to this analytic perspective, we could say that “Revolution 9” is close to European vanguards and, at the same time, has pop music elements.

Keywords: Beatles; White album; rock.

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Author Biographies

José Adriano Fenerick

Doutor em História Econômica pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Professor do Departamento de História da Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp-Franca), onde atua nos cursos de graduação e pós-graduação em História. Autor, entre outros livros, de Façanhas às próprias custas: a produção musical da Vanguarda Paulista (1979-2000). São Paulo: Annablume/Fapesp, 2007.

Carlos Eduardo Marquioni

Doutor em Comunicação e Linguagens pela Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (UTP). Professor do Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas e do Departamento de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia da UTP, onde atua nos cursos de graduação em Jornalismo e Análise de Sistemas e pós-graduação em Comunicação e Linguagens. Autor, entre outros livros, de Programas jornalísticos na TV aberta brasileira: entre atualizações da experiência televisual e a manutenção de antigos contratos de leitura. Jundiaí: Paco (no prelo).

Published

2016-11-30

How to Cite

Fenerick, J. A., & Marquioni, C. E. (2016). The White album’s revolutions: avant-gardism, New Left and pop music. ArtCultura, 17(31). Retrieved from https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/36638

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Dossiê: História & Rock