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  • The Beatles and Humour

    Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play

    The Beatles are known for cheeky punchlines, but understanding their humor goes beyond laughing at John Lennon's memorable “rattle your jewelry” dig at the Royal Variety Performance in 1963. From the beginning, the Beatles' music was full of wordplay and winks, guided by comedic influences ranging from rhythm and blues, British radio, and the Liverpool pub scene. Gifted with timing and deadpan wit ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love

    Series series For the Record: Studies in Rock and Popular Music
    For the Beatles, 1967 marks a signal crossroads that would both transform the group’s career and place them on a trajectory towards their eventual disbandment. It was a year in which they exploded prevailing rock music demographics through the global onslaught and international success of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band beginning in June 1967. Yet it was also a period that saw them in a ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century

    Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture

    de Katie Kapurch ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, as well as the series' film adaptations and fan-authored texts. Attention to conventions such as crying, victimization, and happy endings in the context of the Twilight-Jane Eyre relationship reveals melodrama as an empowering mode of communication for girls. Although melodrama has ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles

    Things We Said Today

    Edición de Kenneth Womack, Katie Kapurch ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Beatles are probably the most photographed band in history and are the subject of numerous biographical studies, but a surprising dearth of academic scholarship addresses the Fab Four. New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles offers a collection of original, previously unpublished essays that explore 'new' aspects of the Beatles. The interdisciplinary collection situates the band in its ... Leer más

    $170.99 USD

  • Blackbird

    How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being—and Sang Back to Them Ever After

    Series series American Music History
    From the beginning, the Beatles acknowledged in interviews their debt to Black music, apparent in their covers of and written original songs inspired by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, the Shirelles, and other giants of R&B. Blackbird goes deeper, appreciating unacknowledged forerunners, as well as Black artists whose interpretations keep the Beatles in play.Drawing on interviews with ... Leer más

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  • Meet the Beatles

    A Cultural History of the Band that Shook Youth, Gender, and the World

    Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.Meet the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of ... Leer más

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  • Read the Beatles

    Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter

    Edición de June Skinner Sawyers ...
    A must-have volume for all Beatles fans-a career-spanning selection of writings about the Fab FourThere are, of course, many books on the Beatles, but this is the only one available that is a comprehensive, career-spanning collection of journalism about the legendary band, before and after the breakup. Consisting of more than fifty articles, essays, interviews, record and movie reviews, poems, and ... Leer más

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  • Faking It

    The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music

    Musicians strive to “keep it real”; listeners condemn “fakes”; ... but does great music really need to be authentic?Did Elvis sing from the heart, or was he just acting? Were the Sex Pistols more real than disco? Why do so many musicians base their approach on being authentic, and why do music buffs fall for it every time? By investigating this obsession in the last century through the stories of ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Can't Buy Me Love

    The Beatles, Britain, and America

    That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould explains why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise. Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and ... Leer más

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  • Beatleness

    How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World

    de Candy Leonard ...
    A must-have for Beatles fans looking for new insight . . . Leonard uncovers fresh ideas [that] . . . six decades of Beatles literature passed over." -The SpectrumPart generational memoir and part cultural history of the sixties, Beatleness is the first book to tell the story of the Beatles and their impact on America from the fans’ perspective. When the Beatles arrived in the United States on ... Leer más

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  • Electric Shock

    From the Gramophone to the iPhone – 125 Years of Pop Music

    de Peter Doggett ...
    Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars of the twentieth century to the omnipresence of music in our lives, in hit singles, ringtones and on Spotify.Over that time, popular music has transformed the world in which we live. Its rhythms have influenced how we walk down ... Leer más

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