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The Second Death of Concept Albums World-Building and Unification Strategies in the Age of Streaming

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Merlini M.
Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology
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2021
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issue 21
57-73
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As the end of the album format is apparently drawing near due to the radical change in music consumption habits motivated by streaming services, artists and genres interested in creating musical works with meanings broader than those of single songs find themselves in a situation worth analysing. Despite all appearances and expectations, I argue that nowadays artists willing to create narrative, thematic or generally conceptual contexts for their songs are living in a potential second golden age of concept albums. Some attempts at keeping the (concept) album alive are more alike to an act of resistance, others creatively take advantage of the same means of communication used by their digital enemy, in order to create something unique and capable of taking the place of the supposedly doomed CD/lP format. They are often transmedial works, thus requiring an interdisciplinary analysis. In this paper, I offer an overview of the contemporary situation of the album format (and concept album more specifically) and finally propose a classification of four forms of contemporary musical world-building strategies, starting from a selection of emblematic case studies.
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Sierżant Pieprz gra koncert na dachu. The Beatles i prefiguracje ponowoczesności

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Sierzputowski K.
Kultura Współczesna. Teoria. Interpretacje. Praktyka
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2021
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vol. 114
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issue 2
176-188
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This article discusses the cultural significance of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a studio album released in 1967 by the English rock band the Beatles, and the final concert in the group’s career played from the rooftop of their Apple Corps headquarters in January 1969. It suggests that both experiments were a consequence of artistic decisions dictated by the band’s general reluctance to traditional music performances and their awareness of the reality of new media: recording studios and TV performances. According to the author, both the album and the concert can be viewed as a turning point from modernity to postmodernity, with a prefiguration of postmodern aesthetic and epistemic experience. This evolution from a concept album to a TV concert resulted in a synthesis materialised in the form of video clips and the birth of the MTV music station. The discovery of the Beatles’ entanglement in this process was possible with the hermeneutics proposed by the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo. Consequently, we are invited to take another look at the Sgt. Pepper’s album and the famous rooftop concert from the anthropological perspective.
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