Reading the Beatles Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four
| Author/creator | Womack, Kenneth Editor |
| Other author | Davis, Todd F. 1965- Editor |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Annotated |
| Publication Info | Suny Press [Imprint] Albany : State University of New York Press |
| Description | 249 p. 09.320 x 06.120 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation Despite the enormous amount of writing devoted to the Beatles during the last few decades, the band's abiding intellectual and cultural significance has received scant attention. Using various modes of literary, musicological, and cultural criticism, the essays in Reading the Beatles firmly establish the Beatles as a locus of serious academic and cultural study. Exploring the group's resounding impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music, the contributors trace not only the literary and musicological qualities of selected Beatles songs but also the development of the Beatles' artistry in their films and the ways in which the band has functioned as a cultural, historical, and economic product. In a poignant afterword, Jane Tompkins offers an autobiographical account of the ways in which the Beatles afforded her with the self-actualizing means to become less alienated from popular culture, gender expectations, and even herself during the early 1960s. Book jacket. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005011240 |
| ISBN | 9780791467152 |
| ISBN | 0791467155 (Trade Cloth) On Demand |
| Standard identifier# | 9780791467152 |
| Stock number | 00025125 |
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