Entre violence et non-violence : L'exemple des Beatles

Resumen

The Beatles, considered the most popular group of all time, have,
through his career, spoken on behalf of a youth they represented, thus
crystallizing the social aspirations of their time. But their career is marked by
stages, and the group has moved between its beginnings, at the dawn of the
sixties, and their psychedelic period, especially (between 1965 and 1967). At first
sight, there seems to be a radical dichotomy between their Hamburg period, full
of pure rock, amphetamines, violence, and that of 1967, absorbing of Zen
currents, transcendental meditation, LSD. Other products, other practices,
musical changes. From the time of the wild force of rock, the British branch off
towards non-violence, introspection (at least temporarily). But should not it be
seen in action, in imitation of the behavior of a whole in imitation of the
behavior of a whole fringe of anti-establishment youth, a dialectical logic? A first
step would call into question the hierarchical foundation of societies, going to
break the frameworks of existence, an ontological revolt of being, while a second
would consecrate the individual as his own foundation, the source of his own
transcendence, which would emerge from the rubble of the old order annihilated. It is a possible symbolic reading, and the schema that underlies it
may then be capable of being applied to other works, currents, or biographies of
personalities.