Every Sound There Is
The Beatles' Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll
- Editor: Reising, Russell
Every Sound There Is
The Beatles' Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll
- Editor: Reising, Russell
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'Every Sound There Is': Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll 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 of popular music in the twenty-first century. Responding to the incredible diversity of Revolver, this gathering of international scholars focuses on the Beatles' 1966 album as one of rock and roll history's threshold moments. Bringing to bear approaches from the disciplines of musicology, cultural studies, poetics, gender studies, these essays address matters as diverse as the influence of American R&B on Revolver as well as its influence on Pink Floyd, each Beatle‘s contributions to the album, the musicological significance of the Beatles' harmonies and chord progressions, its status and coherence as a work of art, the technological and marketing significance of Revolver's recording and distribution, and its influence on the development of rock music.
Contents
- Contents: Introduction: 'Of the beginning', Russell Reising
- 'When I'm in the middle of a dream': The contributors Remember Revolver: Part 1 - 'Where do they all come from?': Revolver's influences: 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
- Part II - 'It is shining': Revolver's Musicality: Revolver as a pivotal art work: structure, harmony and vocal harmonization, Steven Valdez
- Tonal family resemblance in Revolver, Naphtali Wagner
- A flood of flat-sevenths, Ger Tillekens
- Part III - 'And our friends were all aboard': Revolver's players: 'Tomorrow never knows': the contribution of George Martin and his production team to the Beatles' new sound, Kari Macdonald 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 disruptions in the American version of Revolver, Jim LeBlanc
- Part IV: 'Here, there and everywhere': Revolver's themes: 'Love is all and love is everyone': a discussion of four musical portraits, Sheila Whitely
- 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
- Works cited: 'Every reference there is'
- Index: 'It is knowing'.
