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While John, Paul, George and Ringo have been (deservedly) deconstructed more than any other rock band, and an academic look at them is welcome, many of the observations made in this collection will leave fans asking, "So what?" In the opening essay, Penn State English professor Ian Marshall carefully explores the band's lyrics. He points out the confessional poetics of Lennon songs like "Nowhere Man," but isn't original when he compares that tune's themes of self-doubt to Thoreau's "mass of men [who] lead lives of quiet desperation." A more intriguing assertion is Marshall's point that The White Album is a work of "post-modernity" that reflects the fracturing of the band's media image as four lovable mop-tops and a "rebuttal" to the earlier Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Far more remarkable is William M. Northcutt's essay, which studies "death, loss, and the crowd" on Sgt. Pepper. Northcutt, who teaches cultural studies at Germany's University of Wuppertal, introduces the idea that the album's cover, with its famous portrait of the Beatles surrounded by cultural icons, reveals the band's distance from the crowd and its conflicted feelings toward fame. (Mar.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780791467152
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publication date: 2/1/2006
  • Edition description: ANN
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 9.00 (w) x 6.00 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction : "dear sir or madam, will you read my book?" 1
1 "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together" : Bakhtin and the Beatles 9
2 From "craft" to "art" : formal structure in the music of the Beatles 37
3 "Love, love, love" : representations of gender and sexuality in selected songs by the Beatles 55
4 Painting their room in a colorful way : the Beatles' exploration of timbre 71
5 Mythology, remythology, and demythology : the Beatles on film 97
6 Vacio Luminoso : "tomorrow never knows" and the coherence of the impossible 111
7 The spectacle of alienation : death, loss, and the crowd in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 129
8 We all want to change the world : postmodern politics and the Beatles' White Album 147
9 "The rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry" : the Beatles and questions of mass and high culture 161
10 A universal childhood : tourism, pilgrimage, and the Beatles 169
11 "Baby you're a rich man" : the Beatles, ideology, and the cultural moment 183
12 Spinning the historical record : Lennon, McCartney, and museum politics 197
Afterwood : I want to hold your hand 215
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