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Index
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Pop Goes the Avant-Garde
The Status of the Avant-Garde
“Avant-Rock” in the Late 1960s
Part One
All You Need Is Studio Time (or, the Ballad of John and Yoko)
1
Rebranding the Beatles
The Limits of Beatlemania: Sgt. Pepper as Concept Album
Critique of the Middle Class: “She’s Leaving Home” and “Good Morning Good Morning”
Grand Finale: “A Day in the Life”
2
Music Television
From Stage to Screen: The Beatles and “Promotional Films”
A Bad Trip: Magical Mystery Tour
3
The Dialectic of Lennon/McCartney
Apple Corps and the Making of The White Album
Parody, Pastiche and Politics: The Postmodernism of The White Album
The Three Faces of Revolution: “Revolution 1,” “Revolution,” and “Revolution 9”
4
One Bad Apple
When John Met Yoko
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Revolutionary
The Plastic Ono Band
5
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
The Beginning of the End: Abbey Road
Swan Song: Let It Be
Part Two
No Commercial Potential
6
Zappa in Context
Zappa and Mass Music: “Grunion Run” (1963) and “Memories of El Monte” (1963)
Zappa and Theoretical Music: Improvised Piece for Two Bicycles, Prerecorded Tape and the Musicians in the Back (1963; The Steve Allen Show)
7
Motherly Summer of Love
Enter the Mothers of Invention
Freak Scene: Freak Out!
Introducing Suzy Creamcheese
8
Nothing Succeeds Like Excess
“Underground Oratorios”: Absolutely Free
Shock and Roll: The Mothers and the Anti-Concert
9
The Conscience of a (Practical) Conservative
“Are You Hung Up?”: We’re Only in It for the Money as Concept Album
Strange Bedfellows: Zappa and the Monkees
Practical Conservatism: Zappa and the Problem of Politics
10
Project/Object
“No Commercial Potential”: The Mothers as Project/Object
The Zappa Brand: Post-Mothers and Project/Object
Takin’ Care of Business: Zappa and Bizarre Productions
Call of the Wild: Zappa, Captain Beefheart and Trout Mask Replica (1969)
Zappa and Adorno: “On the Social Situation of Music”
Part Three
All Tomorrow’s Parties
11
Andy Says
Opposites Attract: The Formation of the Velvet Underground
The Concert of Cruelty: The Velvets, Nico and the EPI
Making History: The Velvet Underground and Nico
12
The Black Album
Stay in Your Seats: The End of the EPI
Sex, Drugs and Noise: White Light/White Heat
13
Playing It Safe
Exit John Cale: The Velvet Underground
Velvets in Exile: Nico, The Marble Index
Rock and Roll: Loaded
Conclusion
The Avant-Garde Goes Pop
Discography
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
Retrospectives
Chapter Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Names and Terms
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