Beyond the music

rethinking Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Pop art in album covers, Photomontage and visual representation

Abstract

The critical discussion of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has consistently been framed in terms of its importance as a record album. That is, remarks about its musical innovations and the ways it changed the culture of rock music dominate the conversation. When the album cover is mentioned, it is analyzed in terms of the symbiotic relationship it has with the musical innovation of the album itself. However, the discussion is changing; theorists Kenneth
Womack and Todd F. Davis have examined the Beatles’ relationship to critical theory, and music critic Ian Inglis explores the cultural work of the Beatles’ album covers. 

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Author Biographies

Sarah A. Etlinger, University of Winsconsin, Milwaukee, EUA

Sarah Etlinger is Professor of Composition, Literature, and Communication at Rocky Valley College (Illinois,USA). She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition (2012), with a focus on new media studies, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA), an M.A. in English from Syracuse University (USA), where she was a Teaching Fellow, and a B.A. in English from Skidmore College (USA). He has previously published two reviews on the Beatles, one of his favorite subjects, along with new media and popular culture. He is currently developing research relating iTunes and students' learning of rhetoric. 

Fausto Borém, University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)

Fausto Borém (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1960) is Professor of Double Bass, Chamber Music, Music Research and Performance Practices at UFMG, where he created the Master in Music and the Per Musi Magazine. A CNPq researcher since 1994, he holds a PhD in double bass from the University of Georgia and an M.A. in double bass from the University of Iowa, USA. He organized the I National Seminar on Research in Music Performance (1999), the Fourth International Double Bassists Meeting (1996), the Second National Double Bass Composition Contest (1996) and the First National Double Bassists Contest (2002). He has represented Brazil in major national and international double bass events (USA in 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2001, France in 1994, Scotland in 1998). He has presented papers at the International Society of Bassists Convention, SBPC, International Double Bass Meetings, ANPPOM National Meetings, GAMUT Annual Meeting - Georgia Association of Music Theory. He has published dozens of articles in important national and international journals in the areas of performance, analysis and historical musicology (see Curriculum Lattes at the CNPq website). Award-winning soloist several times in Brazil and abroad, he is the bass player of Trio Novarte and Geraes Jazz 'round. His work Uma Didática da Invenção was awarded 3rd place in the III National Contest of Composition for Double Bass (UFG, 2000). He has coordinated twice the Visiting Artist Project at UFMG with the UAKTI Workshop (1996) and the Workshop of Double Bass Guitar Making for Children (2002).

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2014-11-20

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Etlinger, Sarah A., and Fausto Borém. 2014. “Beyond the Music: Rethinking Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Per Musi, no. 30 (November):1-10. https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/permusi/article/view/38830.

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No. 30 (2014): General Topics

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