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(.)there has long been an implicit recognition of the role of film as a vehicle for ideas.(.)popular music has largely evaded that kind of official interrogation & in some ways this is surprising(.)the lyrics of songs as the Small Faces 'Itchycoo Park', Cooper's 'School Is Out' & Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall' are among many to have contested the authority of traditional sources of knowledge & its delivery.

my sincerest apologies if the contributors of this book are stalking my Goodreads. reading the white album essay and I had high expectations mainly because I feel there is so much to talk about from an artistic, autobiographical, epistemological , and so on perspective here and it just fell so flt. yes, the white album is fragmented and resists interpretation. yes those are characteristics of postmodern art. im just