VLVL Berger: rock'n'roll

[Dave Monroe]

>From James Berger, "Cultural Trauma and the 'Timeless
Burst': Pynchon's revision of Nostalgia in Vineland,"
Postmodern Culture Vol. 5, No. 3 (May, 1995) ...

Heidegger's opposition to all forms of "enframing" can
be translated in the context of the late 60s to two
instances from popular culture: to the Beatles'
quietist slogan, to "Let it Be," and to the Rolling
Stones' parodic response, to "Let it Bleed." ...

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.595/berger.595

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/papers_berger.html

The Beatles released "Let it Be" b/w "You Know My Name
(Look Up the Number)" in the UK March 6th, 1970; the
LP of the same name (but of course featuring a
different recording of the title song) came out there
May 8, 1970.

http://www.beatles-discography.com/

The Rolling Stones' Let it Bleed LP, on the other
hand, was December 5th, 1969, though its title song
had been recorded some time earlier that year, in
sessions running from March 9th to June 10th ...

http://www.keno.org/stones_lyrics/let_it_bleed.htm

HOWEVER ...

Let It Be  
(McCartney)

Recorded: January 31, April 30, 1969, January 4, 1970,
Apple Studios, London

http://www.iqm.ro/beatles/lyrics/pletitbe.html

On March 16, 1970, the single version of "Let It Be"
was finally released, a year and two months after
being recorded....

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> (Btw, I'm not sure what to make of Berger's 'Let it
> Be'/'Let it Bleed' analogy, which sounds really
> perceptive but in the context of the novel is
> probably a spurious one.)

I swear I'[ve addressed this recently already, but ...


	
		
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