In late 1970, John Lennon began promoting his first post-Beatles solo album, Plastic Ono Band, which he described as ‘first-person music’ to Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner. This essay situates the album and two of Lennon's promotional interviews within an emergent politics of individualism in order to explore how self-expression became an aesthetic practice and critical value in rock music. The album's reception and promotion help reveal how key political values – on individualism, rebellion and self-expression – began to be newly articulated to certain kinds of rock musicians after 1970. By understanding that process of articulation, popular music scholars may consider the contradictory political consequences of the broader valorisation of ‘first-person music’ since the 1970s.

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约翰列侬的塑料小野乐队作为“第一人称音乐”：自 1970 年以来摇滚音乐中自我表达的政治笔记

1970 年末，约翰列侬开始宣传他的第一张披头士乐队后的个人专辑，塑料小野带，他将其描述为“第一人称音乐”滚石编辑简·温纳。本文将专辑和列侬的两次宣传采访置于新兴的个人主义政治中，以探讨自我表达如何成为摇滚音乐的审美实践和批判价值。这张专辑的接受和推广有助于揭示关键的政治价值观——关于个人主义、反叛和自我表达——是如何在 1970 年后开始在某些类型的摇滚音乐家身上得到新表达的。通过理解这个表达过程，流行音乐学者可能会考虑到相互矛盾的政治自 1970 年代以来“第一人称音乐”的更广泛价值化的后果。