10. "Misunderstanding All You See": Charles Manson Reading the Beatles at the End of the World
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1. | Title | Title of document | 10. "Misunderstanding All You See": Charles Manson Reading the Beatles at the End of the World - The Beatles in Perspective |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Gerry Carlin; University of Wolverhampton; |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Mark Jones; University of Wolverhampton; |
3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | music |
4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | The Beatles; music icons; popular music; 1960s; Liverpool music scene; music industry; recording industry; film music; popular culture; music peformance |
6. | Description | Abstract | As their work progressed, The Beatles’ music offered to its audiences portals to alternative forms of knowledge; but these were only fully accessible to those immersed in psychedelic culture. This chapter considers how a range of listeners – but most notoriously, Charles Manson – interpreted the band as the principal shapers of cultural consciousness in the sixties, and how this burden of significance mutated to configure the Beatles as functionaries of disillusion at the decade’s catastrophic close. Focusing on The Beatles’ 1968 ‘White Album’ as a foundational text, the chapter analyses closely the songs ‘Glass Onion’ and ‘HelterSkelter’ before surveying and comparing Manson’s statements on The Beatles with Lennon and McCartney’s differing responses to radical interpretations. |
7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 25-Jul-2023 |
10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
11. | Type | Type | |
12. | Format | File format | |
13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/25036 |
14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.25036 |
15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Beatles in Perspective |
16. | Language | English=en | En |
18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Liverpool; United Kingdom; Global, 1960s; contemporary |
19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |