The vegetables turned
Popular Music History April 7, 2010 Dale Carter
This article offers a comparative analysis of aspects of the careers of two celebrated 1960s popular musicians, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd. Through formal and contextual readings of selected songs, it argues that during 1967, in the hands of Barrett, Wilson and his lyricist Van Dyke Parks, the incongruous, semantically complex figure of the vegetable came to...
DOI: 10.1558/pomh.v4i1.57 (opens in new tab)
Mythology
Popular music
Consciousness
Dystopia
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