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From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection of essays tells the fascinating story of the Beatles the creation of the band, their musical influences, and their cultural significance, with emphasis on their genesis and practices as musicians, songwriters, and recording artists. Through detailed biographical and album analyses, the book uncovers the background of each band member and provides expansive readings of the bands music. Traces the groups creative output from their earliest recordings through their career Pays particular attention to the social and historical factors which contributed to the creation of the band Investigates the Beatles unique enduring musical legacy and cultural power Clearly organized into three sections, covering Background, Works, and History and Influence, the Companion is ideal for course usage, and is also a must-read for all Beatles fans
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The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles
From Please Please Me to Abbey Road , this collection of essays tells the fascinating story of the Beatles the creation of the band, their musical influences, and their cultural significance, with emphasis on their genesis and practices as musicians, songwriters, and recording artists. Through detailed biographical and album analyses, the book uncovers the background of each band member and provides expansive readings of the band's music. Clearly organized into three sections, covering Background, Works, and History and Influence, the Companion is ideal for course usage, and is also a must-read for all Beatles fans.
Traces the group's creative output from their earliest recordings and throughout their career
Pays particular attention to the social and historical factors which contributed to the creation of the band
Investigates the Beatles uniquely enduring musical legacy and cultural power
The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles
Edited by
Kenneth Womack
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, So Paulo, Delhi
Cambridge University Press
The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK
Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York
www.cambridge.org
Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521689762
Cambridge University Press 2009
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
First published 2009
Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge
A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data
The Cambridge companion to the Beatles / edited by Kenneth Womack.
p. cm. (Cambridge companions to music)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-521-86965-2 (hardback)
1. Beatles. 2. Rock musicians England. 3. Rock music History and criticism.
I. Womack, Kenneth. II. Title. III. Series.
ML421.B4C33 2009
782.421660922 dc22 2009030744
ISBN 978-0-521-86965-2 hardback
ISBN 978-0-521-68976-2 paperback
Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.
For Kenneth E. Zimmerman (19132008)
Contents
Anthony DeCurtis
Kenneth Womack
Dave Laing
Jerry Zolten
Howard Kramer
James M. Decker
Russell Reising and Jim LeBlanc
Ian Inglis
Steve Hamelman
Bruce Spizer
Michael Frontani
Walter Everett
Sheila Whiteley
Gary Burns
John Kimsey
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Contributors
Gary Burns is Professor of Communication at Northern Illinois University, Editor of the journal Popular Music and Society , Executive Secretary of the Midwest Popular Culture Association, and Vice President of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association.
James M. Decker is Associate Professor of English at Illinois Central College. He is the author of Ideology (2003) and Henry Miller and Narrative Form : Constructing the Self, Rejecting Modernity (2005). In addition to contributing numerous articles to such publications as College Literature and Style , he is editor of Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal .
Anthony DeCurtis is a renowned author and music critic who has written for Rolling Stone , the New York Times, Relix , and a host of other publications. He is the author of Rocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters (1998) and In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work (2005). He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Walter Everett is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music Theory at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance. He is the author of the two-volume set The Beatles as Musicians (1999, 2001) and the editor of the essay collection Expression in Pop-Rock Music (1999), and is currently writing a book entitled The Foundations of Rock from Blue Suede Shoes to Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.
Michael Frontani is Coordinator of American Studies and Associate Professor in the School of Communications at Elon University, where he teaches courses on film history, film theory, popular music, and mass culture. He is the author of The Beatles: Image and the Media (2007), which was selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, and numerous essays on popular music, reception, and culture. He is currently working on book-length studies of the Italian American image in American mass consumer society and on American cinema's development and evolution within the context of US culture.
Steve Hamelman is Professor of English at Coastal Carolina University, where he teaches American literature and literary theory. He has written many essays on early American fiction and pop music. He is the author of But Is It Garbage? On Rock and Trash (2004), as well as the recipient of Popular Music and Society 's R. Serge Denisoff Award.
Ian Inglis is Reader in Popular Music Studies at the University of Northumbria. His doctoral research considered the role of sociological, social-psychological, and cultural theory in explanations of the career of the Beatles. His books include The Beatles, Popular Music and Society: A Thousand Voices (2000), Popular Music and Film (2003), and Performance and Popular Music (2006). He is currently preparing The Words and Music of George Harrison for Praeger's Singer-Songwriter series.
John Kimsey received his PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and serves as Associate Professor in DePaul University's School for New Learning. He teaches and writes about modern literature and popular music and has also worked as a professional musician. His writings have appeared in Sgt. Pepper & the Beatles: It Was Forty Years Ago Today (2008); Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four (2006); and the Journal of Popular Music Studies , among other publications.
Howard Kramer is the Curatorial Director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Since joining the museum in 1996, Kramer has curated exhibits on Elvis Presley, the Supremes, Hank Williams, the Doors, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Beach Boys, and many others. His writings have appeared in Rolling Stone , the Cleveland Plain Dealer , and Gadfly Magazine .
Dave Laing is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool. His books include The Sound of Our Time (1970) and One Chord Wonders (1985). He is co-editor of The Faber/Da Capo Companion to Twentieth-Century Popular Music (1990) and the Continuum Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World (20025).
Jim LeBlanc is Head of Database Management Services at the Cornell University Library, where he has worked since receiving his PhD from Cornell in 1984. In addition to library-related writing and research, his areas of current scholarly interest include popular music, existential phenomenology, and James Joyce studies.
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