Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love

As we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the most momentous year in the life of the Beatles, the contributors to The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love perform wide-ranging analyses of the group’s enduring sociocultural influence and achievements.

Kenneth Womack is professor of English and dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University. Kathryn B. Cox isdoctoral candidate in historical musicology at the University of Michigan.

Introduction: It Was 50 Years Ago Today! - Kenneth Womack I. A Splendid Time Is Guaranteed for All 1.Sgt. Pepper-with a Little Outsider Help-Taught the Band to Play - Jerry Zolten 2.Turning Us On: Artifice as Authenticity in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Mark Osteen 3.The Sitar, Eastern Music and Philosophy, and the Beatles' Progress Towards Rishikesh - Kathryn B. Cox 4.The Act You've Known for All These Years: Discord and Harmony in the Third Space - Jacqueline Edmondson II. The Summer of Love (and Commerce) 5. "All You Need Is Love": The Beatles in the Global Village - Kit O'Toole 6.Golden Blunders: The Fall of the Beatles' Apple and Its Unlikely Seed - Joe Rapolla 7.The Wretched Life of a Lonely Heart: Sgt. Pepper's Girls, Fandom, the Wilson Sisters, and Chrissie Hynde - Katie Kapurch 8. "You Say You Want a Revolution": The Beatles and the Political Culture of the 1960s - Kenneth L. Campbell III. The Magical/Tragical History Tour 9.Dying To Take You Away: The Beatles as Cinemati