The Beatles, Popular Music and Society: A Thousand Voices

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Overview

The Beatles' evolution from a Liverpool rock and roll group into one of the 20th century's defining images has been repeatedly chronicled but rarely analyzed; a critical appreciation of their music and career, and the issues and debates they provoked, is long overdue. This book provides the first sustained investigation of some of the many historical, cultural, musical, and sociological facets of the group's career. Written by an international group of scholars, it is essential for those wishing to understand not only the phenomenon of the Beatles, but the broader social contexts which popular music continues to be practiced and studied.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312222369
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/15/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	211
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Ian Inglis is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Thousand Voices--Ian Inglis
• Men of Ideas?: Popular Music, Anti-Intellectualism, and the Beatles--Ian Inglis
• Coming Out of the Rhetoric of "Merseybeat": Conversations with Joe Flannery--Mike Brocken
• The Beatles and the Spectacle of Youth--John Muncie
• Lennon-McCartney and the Early British Invasion, 1964-6--Jon Fitzgerald
• From Me to You: Austerity to Profligacy in the Language of the Beatles--Guy Cook & Neil Mercer
• The Postmodern White Album--Ed Whitley
• You Can't Do That: The Beatles, Artistic Freedom, and Censorship--Martin Cloonan
• Tell Me What You See: The Influence and Impact of the Beatles' Movies--Bob Neaverson
• The Celebrity Legacy of the Beatles--P. David Marshall
• Refab Four: Beatles for Sale in the Age of Music Video--Gary Burns
• "Sitting in an English Garden": Comparing Representations of Britishness' in the Songs of the Beatles and 1990s Britpop Groups--Andy Bennett