Sgt. Pepper and the White Album
The Establishment and Dissolution of the Album Form
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22008356 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Littlejohn (0000-0002-3628-8523, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 78-96 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2161-427X • E-ISSN: 1524-8429 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/intelitestud.22.1-2.0078 |
| OpenAlex | W3093950354 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Critics and fans already regarded Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as the apotheosis of the album form by the time the Beatles recorded their follow-up LP, the White Album. Always artistically restless, the band were no longer interested in creating the same type of cohesive, thematically unified album as Sgt. Pepper; they had already accomplished that feat and moved on. With the White Album, the Beatles positively shattered any sense of textual unity, creating a type of anti-Pepper and, perhaps unavoidably, anti-album. Doing so allowed the Beatles to undermine album construction and allowed the audience insight into the band's creative process
Apotheosis · Art · Art history · Biology · Club · Literature · Pepper · Physics · Diverse Musicological Studies · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Horticulture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |