Every sound there is : the Beatles' Revolver and the transformation of rock and roll / edited by Russell Reising.

Other author Reising, Russell, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2002.
Descriptionvi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

Portion of title Beatles' Revolver and the transformation of rock and roll
SeriesAshgate popular and folk music series
Ashgate popular and folk music series. ^A512613
Contents Introduction : 'Of the beginning' / Russell Reising -- Detroit and Memphis : the soul of Revolver / Walter Everett -- I'm Eleanor Rigby : female identity and Revolver / Jacqueline Warwick -- Sailing to the sun : Revolver's influence on Pink Floyd / Shaugn O'Donnell -- Revolver as a pivotal art work : structure, harmony, and vocal harmonization / Stephen Valdez -- Tonal family resemblance in Revolver / Naphtali Wagner -- A flood of flat-sevenths / Ger Tillekens -- 'Tomorrow never knows' : the contribution of George Martin and his production team to the Beatles' new sound / Kari McDonald and Sarah Hudson Kaufman -- The Beatles for everyone : rearranging base and superstructure in the rock ballad / Cy Schleifer -- Ringo round Revolver : rhythm, timbre, and tempo in rock drumming / Steven Baur -- The Beatle who became a man : Revolver and George Harrison's metamorphosis / Matthew Bannister -- Premature turns : thematic disruption in the American version of Revolver / Jim LeBlanc -- 'Love is all and love is everyone' : a discussion of four musical portraits / Sheila Whiteley -- The Beatles, postmodernism, and ill-tempered musical form : cleaning my gun ; or, the use of accidentals in Revolver / Ronald Schleifer -- 'It is not dying' : Revolver and the birth of psychedelic sound / Russell Reising.
Abstract This book assesses and celebrates the Beatles' accomplishment in their 1966 masterpiece. The essays of Every Sound There Is examine Revolver from a large number of complementary starting points that help us to understand both the album's contemporary creation and reception and the ways in which it continues to shape the creation and reception and popular music in the twenty-first century.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 255-264) and index.
LCCN 2001055338
ISBN0754605566 (hbk.)
ISBN0754605574 (pbk.)

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