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| Author(s) | Joan Didion |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Essays |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Publication date | 1979 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 222 |
| ISBN | 0-671-22685-1 |
| OCLC Number | 23163086 |
The White Album is a 1979 book of essays by Joan Didion. The entire contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006).
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Contents [link]
I. The White Album [link]
- "The White Album" (1968-78)
The White Album is an autobiographical literary essay detailing loosely related events in the author's life in the 1960s, primarily in Los Angeles, California. In the course of describing her ongoing psychological difficulties, Didion discusses Black Panther Party meetings, drug-related experiences, a Doors recording session, various other interactions with LA musicians and cultural figures and several prison meetings with Linda Kasabian, a former follower of Charles Manson who was testifying against the group for the grisly Sharon Tate murders. Tate had been an acquaintance of Didion's. The murder trial cast a cloud of fear over Hollywood that seemed to propel many of Didion's insights. The impression conveyed is one of a city and nation pervaded by paranoia and detachment.
However, the ending, in which the author moves away from what she feels to be the unstable world of Hollywood and renovates an old house that possesses a few lingering associations with the 1960s, indicates that for her there is still the possibility of escaping the paranoia and unrest of that decade.
II. California Republic [link]
- "James Pike, American" (1976)
The liberal Episcopalian bishop is viewed as representing the shallower aspects of American spirituality.
- "Holy Water" (1977)
- "Many Mansions" (1977)
An account of a lavish Governor's mansion commissioned by Ronald Reagan, while Governor of California, which was not used.
- "The Getty" (1977)
The Museum is viewed as an extension of power
- "Bureaucrats" (1976)
The contemporary workings of Caltrans.
- "Good Citizens" (1968-70)
Californian politics
- "Notes Toward a Dreampolitik" (1968-70)
III. Women [link]
- "The Women's Movement" (1972)
A critical essay which views second-wave feminism as a Marxist substitute for the proletariat.
- "Doris Lessing" (1971)
The author of The Golden Notebook is seen as a 'nativist' writer in the manner of Theodore Dreiser.
IV. Sojourns [link]
- "In the Islands"
- "In Hollywood"
- "In Bed"
- "On the Road"
- "On the Mall"
- "In Bogotá"
- "At the Dam"
V. On the Morning After the Sixties [link]
- "On the Morning After the Sixties"
- "Quiet Days in Malibu"
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The Beatles (album)
The Beatles, also known as the White Album, is the ninth studio album by English rock group the Beatles, released on 22 November 1968. A double album, its plain white sleeve has no graphics or text other than the band's name embossed, and was intended as a direct contrast to the vivid cover artwork of the band's earlier Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Although no singles were issued from The Beatles in Britain and the United States, the songs "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" originated from the same recording sessions and were issued on a single in August 1968. The album's songs range in style from British blues and ska to tracks influenced by the Beach Boys and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Most of the songs on the album were written during March and April 1968 at a Transcendental Meditation course in Rishikesh, India. The group returned to EMI Studios in May with recording lasting through to October. During these sessions, arguments broke out among the Beatles, and witnesses in the studio saw band members quarrel over creative differences. The feuds intensified when Lennon's new partner, Yoko Ono, started attending the sessions. After a series of problems, including producer George Martin taking a sudden leave of absence and engineer Geoff Emerick quitting, Ringo Starr left the band briefly in August. The same tensions continued throughout the following year, leading to the eventual break-up of the Beatles in April 1970.
Weezer (2016 album)
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Writing and composition
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