The Beatles, Popular Music and Society: A Thousand Voices / Edition 1

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Overview

More has been written about the Beatles than any other performing artists of the twentieth century. Accounts of their lives and times have been retold, reproduced and reinvented to the extent that their achievements have passed into contemporary folklore and popular mythology. What has been surprisingly absent, however, is any sustained critical investigation of the numerous debates and issues the group provoked. This book provides that long overdue analysis, by seeking to present the academic study of the Beatles in its appropriate contexts - historical, political, musical and sociological. Consisting entirely of newly commissioned articles and written by an international group of scholars, its contents challenge many of the traditional assumptions about the Beatles and offer fresh and provocative insights into the nature of their success and its continuing influence. It is essential reading for those wishing to understand not only the phenomenon of the Beatles but also the cultural environment within which popular music continues to be practised 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