The Who's the Who Sell Out by Dougan, John
The Who's the Who Sell Out by Dougan, John

The Who's the Who Sell Out

Released in the U.S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh,...
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Author: John Dougan
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The Who's the Who Sell Out by Dougan, John

The Who's the Who Sell Out

$209.83
The Who's the Who Sell Out by Dougan, John

The Who's the Who Sell Out

$209.83
Author: John Dougan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Released in the U.S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire--the album sold well, but not spectacularly and was] ultimately a nostalgic in-joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying its in-joke status was its unapologetic Englishness; 13 tracks stitched together in a mock pirate radio broadcast, without a DJ, with cool, anglocentric commercials to boot. In the 36 years since its release, Sell Out, though still not the best selling release in The Who's catalog, has been embraced by a growing number of fans who regard it as the band's best work, one of the few recordings of the late 1960s that best represents the ambitious aesthetic possibilities of the concept album without becoming mired in a bog of smug, self-aggrandizing, high art aspirations. Sell Out, powerfully and ecstatically, articulates the nexus of pop music and pop culture.

As much as it is an expression of the band's expanding sonic palette, Sell Out also functions as a critique of the rock and roll lifestyle. Not the clich d mantra of sex, drugs, and rock and roll but in the ways that commercial advertising fabricates a youth-oriented cultural reality by hawking pimple cream, deodorant, food, musical equipment, etc., and linking it with rock and roll. In this sense Sell Out is a reflective work, one that struggles with rock and roll as a cultural expression that aspires to aesthetic permanence while marketed as ephemera. From this conflict emerges a pop art masterpiece.

Author: John Dougan
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.52h x 4.88w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9780826417435

About the Author
John Dougan received a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary and is an associate professor in the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University.


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