Ukraine Girls and Liverpool Boys Back in the USSR: Revisiting The Beatles in Times of Trouble and War

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Abstract

This paper was prompted by two totally unconnected but highly evocative events: The Beatles International Conference, organized by the Lisbon branch of CETAPS at NOVA (June 2021), and the Russian military invasion of Ukraine (February 2022). My purpose in drawing them together is to offer some brief comments on “Back in the USSR”, the opening track of the double LP The Beatles (November 1968), the first edited by Apple Records, and usually known as “The White Album”.

Este artigo foi despoletado por dois acontecimentos totalmente independentes, mas profundamente simbólicos: o Congresso Internacional sobre os Beatles, organizado pelo polo de
Lisboa do CETAPS na NOVA (junho de 2021) e a invasão militar da Ucrânia pela Rússia (fevereiro de 2022). O meu propósito ao relacionar ambos é o de tecer alguns breves comentários sobre
“Back in the USSR”, a faixa inaugural do disco duplo The Beatles (novembro de 1968), o primeiro editado pela Apple Records e geralmente conhecido apenas como o “Álbum Branco”.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)40-49
Number of pages9
JournalVia Panoramica: Revista de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
Volume11
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Keywords

  • “Back in the USSR”
  • Ukraine Girls
  • The Beatles (Double LP, 1968
  • “The White Album”
  • The Beatles
  • Mulheres da Ucrânia
  • The Beatles (LP duplo, 1968)
  • O “Álbum Branco”

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