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| how did the beatles influence society: How the Beatles Changed the World Martin W. Sandler, 2014-02-04 Fifty years after the British invasion began, Martin Sandler explores The Beatles' long-lasting impact on the world |
| how did the beatles influence society: What Goes on Walter Everett, Tim Riley, 2019 In a stretch of just seven years, the Beatles recorded hundreds of songs which tower above those of their worthy peers as both the product of cultural leadership and an artistic reflection of their turbulent age, the1960s. Walter Everett and Tim Riley's What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time blends historical narrative, musicology, and music analysis to tell the full story of the Beatles and how they redefined pop music. The book traces the Beatles' development chronologically, marking the band's involvement with world events such as the Vietnam War, strides in overcoming racial segregation, gender stereotyping, student demonstrations, and the generation gap. It delves deeply into their body of work, introducing the concepts of musical form, instrumentation, harmonic structure, melodic patterns, and rhythmic devices in a way that is accessible to musicians and non-musicians alike. Close readings of specific songs highlight the tensions between imagination and mechanics, songwriting and technology, and through the book's musical examples, listeners will learn how to develop strategies for creating their own rich interpretations of the potential meanings behind their favorite songs. Videos hosted on the book's companion website offer full definitions and performance demonstrations of all musical concepts discussed in the text, and interactive listening guides illustrate track details in real-time listening. The unique multimedia approach of What Goes On reveals just how great this music was in its own time, and why it remains important today as a body of singular achievement. |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beatles and Sixties Britain Marcus Collins, 2020-03-05 In this rigorous study, Marcus Collins reconceives the Beatles' social, cultural and political impact on sixties Britain. |
| how did the beatles influence society: Can't Buy Me Love Jonathan Gould, 2007-10-02 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 musical criticism. Beginning with their adolescence in Liverpool, Gould describes the seminal influences––from Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry to The Goon Show and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland––that shaped the Beatles both as individuals and as a group. In addition to chronicling their growth as singers, songwriters, and instrumentalists, he highlights the advances in recording technology that made their sound both possible and unique, as well as the developments in television and radio that lent an explosive force to their popular success. With a musician’s ear, Gould sensitively evokes the timeless appeal of the Lennon-McCartney collaboration and their emergence as one of the most creative and significant songwriting teams in history. Behind the scenes Gould explores the pivotal roles played by manager Brian Epstein and producer George Martin, credits the influence on the Beatles’ music of contemporaries like Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, and Ravi Shankar, and traces the gradual escalation of the fractious internal rivalries that led to the group’s breakup after their final masterpiece, Abbey Road. Most significantly, by chronicling their revolutionary impact on popular culture during the 1960s, Can’t Buy Me Love illuminates the Beatles as a charismatic phenomenon of international proportions, whose anarchic energy and unexpected import was derived from the historic shifts in fortune that transformed the relationship between Britain and America in the decades after World War II. From the Beats in America and the Angry Young Men in England to the shadow of the Profumo Affair and JFK’s assassination, Gould captures the pulse of a time that made the Beatles possible—and even necessary. As seen through the prism of the Beatles and their music, an entire generation’s experience comes astonishingly to life. Beautifully written, consistently insightful, and utterly original, Can’ t Buy Me Love is a landmark work about the Beatles, Britain, and America. |
| how did the beatles influence society: How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin Leslie Woodhead, 2013-01-01 A fascinating examination of the enduring popularity of the Beatles in the former Soviet Union by a writer who was there from the beginning, including never-seen-before photographs |
| how did the beatles influence society: Beatlemania André Millard, 2012-06-04 This look at how changes in the music industry made the Fab Four phenomenon possible “presents a different interpretation of a much-studied topic” (Essays in Economic and Business History). In this unique study, André Millard argues that, despite the Beatles’ indisputable skill, they would not have attained the same global recognition or been as influential without the convergence of significant developments in the way music was produced, recorded, sold, and consumed. As the Second Industrial Revolution hit full swing and baby boomers came of age, the reel-to-reel recorder and other technological advances sped the evolution of the music business. Musicians, recording studios and record labels, and music fans used and interacted with music-making and -playing technology in new ways. Higher quality machines made listening to records and the radio an experience that one could easily share with others, even if they weren’t in the same physical space. At the same time, an increase in cross-Atlantic commerce—especially of entertainment products—led to a freer exchange of ideas and styles of expression, notably among the middle and lower classes in the U.S. and the UK. At that point, Millard argues, the Beatles rode their remarkable musicianship and cultural savvy to an unprecedented bond with their fans—and spawned Beatlemania. Lively and insightful, Beatlemania offers a deeper understanding the days of the Fab Four and the band’s long-term effects on the business and culture of pop music. |
| how did the beatles influence society: Who Killed John Lennon? Fenton Bresler, 1990 Based on six years of extensive research into the background and motives of assassin Mark Chapman and the circumstances of the murder, the author contends that Chapman was part of a political plot |
| how did the beatles influence society: Meet the Beatles Steven D. Stark, 2009-10-13 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 the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé about how they broke up. It isn’t a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents’ stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up? As he did in his previous books, Love is a Mix Tape, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, and Turn Around Bright Eyes, Sheffield focuses on the emotional connections we make to music. This time, he focuses on the biggest pop culture phenomenon of all time—The Beatles. In his singular voice, he explores what the Beatles mean today, to fans who have learned to love them on their own terms and not just for the sake of nostalgia. Meet the Beatles tells the story of how four lads from Liverpool became the world’s biggest pop group, then broke up—but then somehow just kept getting bigger. At this point, their music doesn’t belong to the past—it belongs to right now. This book is a celebration of that music, showing why the Beatles remain the world’s favorite thing—and how they invented the future we’re all living in today. |
| how did the beatles influence society: Ticket to Ride Larry Kane, 2014-08 TICKET TO RIDE: INSIDE THE BEATLES' 1964 TOUR THAT CHANGED THE WORLD |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beatles as Musicians : Revolver through the Anthology Walter Everett Associate Professor of Music in Music Theory University of Michigan, 1999-03-31 Given the phenomenal fame and commercial success that the Beatles knew for the entire course of their familiar career, their music per se has received surprisingly little detailed attention. Not all of their cultural influence can be traced to long hair and flashy clothing; the Beatles had numerous fresh ideas about melody, harmony, counterpoint, rhythm, form, colors, and textures. Or consider how much new ground was broken by their lyrics alone--both the themes and imagery of the Beatles' poetry are key parts of what made (and still makes) this group so important, so popular, and so imitated. This book is a comprehensive chronological study of every aspect of the Fab Four's musical life--including full examinations of composition, performance practice, recording, and historical context--during their transcendent late period (1966-1970). Rich, authoritative interpretations are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio, print, and other sources. |
| how did the beatles influence society: A Women’s History of the Beatles Christine Feldman-Barrett, 2021-01-28 Winner of the 2022 Open Publication Prize by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-ANZ) A Women's History of the Beatles is the first book to offer a detailed presentation of the band's social and cultural impact as understood through the experiences and lives of women. Drawing on a mix of interviews, archival research, textual analysis, and autoethnography, this scholarly work depicts how the Beatles have profoundly shaped and enriched the lives of women, while also reexamining key, influential female figures within the group's history. Organized topically based on key themes important to the Beatles story, each chapter uncovers the varied and multifaceted relationships women have had with the band, whether face-to-face and intimately or parasocially through mediated, popular culture. Set within a socio-historical context that charts changing gender norms since the early 1960s, these narratives consider how the Beatles have affected women's lives across three generations. Providing a fresh perspective of a well-known tale, this is a cultural history that moves far beyond the screams of Beatlemania to offer a more comprehensive understanding of what the now iconic band has meant to women over the course of six decades. |
| how did the beatles influence society: How The Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll Elijah Wald, 2011-10 How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll is an alternative history of American music that, instead of recycling the familiar cliches of jazz and rock, looks at what people were playing, hearing and dancing to over the course of the 20th century, using a wealth of original research, curious quotations, and an irreverent fascination with the oft-despised commercial mainstream. |
| how did the beatles influence society: 101 Albums that Changed Popular Music Chris Smith, 2009 Chris Smith tells the fascinating stories behind the most groundbreaking, influential, and often controversial albums ever recorded. |
| how did the beatles influence society: In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works John Lennon, 2010-10-05 An omnibus edition of two works of John Lennon’s “fascinating…whimsy” (The Sunday Times, London) poetry, prose, and drawings that will “jolt [you] into gusts of laughter” (The Guardian). A humorous compilation of poetry, prose, and artwork from two of John Lennon’s classic works, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works. Known as the Beatles’s Renaissance man, Lennon is widely regarded as one of the most impactful musicians in history. Originally published in 1964, this “quirky, funny collection of stories, poems, and drawings” (The New York Times) is a must-have for John Lennon and Beatles fans everywhere. |
| how did the beatles influence society: One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time Craig Brown, 2020-04-02 SHORTLISTED for the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year • A Times Book of the Year • A Telegraph Book of the Year • A Sunday Times Book of the Year |
| how did the beatles influence society: Joy and Fear John F. Lyons, 2021-02-23 For many, the Beatles offered a delightful alternative to the dull and the staid, while for others, the mop-top haircuts, the unsettling music, and the hysterical girls that greeted the British imports wherever they went were a symbol of unwelcome social and cultural change. This opposition to the group—more widespread and deeper rooted in Chicago than in any other major American city—increased as the decade wore on, especially when the Beatles adopted more extreme countercultural values. At the center of this book is a cast of characters engulfed by the whirlwind of Beatlemania, including the unyielding figure of Mayor Richard J. Daley who deemed the Beatles a threat to the well-being of his city; the Chicago Tribune editor who first warned the nation about the Beatle menace; George Harrison’s sister, Louise, who became a regular presence on Chicago radio; the socialist revolutionary who staged all of the Beatles’ concerts in the city and used much of the profits from the shows to fund left-wing causes; the African-American girl who braved an intimidating environment to see the Beatles in concert; a fan club founder who disbelievingly found herself occupying a room opposite her heroes when they stayed at her father’s hotel; the University of Chicago medical student who spent his summer vacation playing in a group that opened for the Beatles’ on their last tour; and the suburban record store owner who opened a teen club modeled on the Cavern in Liverpool that hosted some of the biggest bands in the world. Drawing on historical and contemporary accounts, Joy and Fear brings to life the frenzied excitement of Beatlemania in 1960s Chicago, while also illustrating the deep-seated hostility from the establishment toward the Beatles. |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beatles are Coming! Bruce Spizer, 2003 An account of the explosion of the Beatles' popularity in the U.S. includes 450 photos and images from period publications, album art work, merchandising and publicity materials, and documents from various legal tussles between record labels after the Beatles' worth became evident. |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beatles Michael R. Frontani, 2007-01-01 The Beatles: Image and the Media charts the transformation of the Beatles from teen idols to leaders of the youth movement and powerful cultural agents. Drawing upon American mainstream print media, broadcasts, albums, films, and videos, the study covers the band's career in the United States. Michael R. Frontani explores how the Beatles' media image evolved and how this transformation related to cultural and historical events. Upon their arrival in the U.S., the Beatles wore sharply tailored suits and cast themselves as adorable, accessible teen heartthrobs. By the end of the decade, they had absorbed the fashion and consciousness of the burgeoning counterculture and were using their interviews, media events, and music to comment on issues such as the Vietnam War, drug culture, and civil rights. Frontani traces the steps that led to this change and comments on how the band's mantra of essential optimism never wavered despite the evolution of its media profile. Michael R. Frontani is associate professor of communications at Elon University. His work has appeared in American Journalism, Journal of American Culture, Journalism History, and African Studies Review. |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beatles and the Historians Erin Torkelson Weber, 2016-04-27 Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and presented by biographers and journalists as history. Yet many of these works do not strictly qualify as history and the story of how the Beatles' mythology continues to be told has been largely ignored. This book examines the band's historiography, exploring the four major narratives that have developed over time: The semi-whitewashed Fab Four account, the acrimonious breakup-era Lennon Remembers version, the biased Shout! narrative in the wake of John Lennon's murder, and the current Mark Lewisohn orthodoxy. Drawing on the most influential primary and secondary sources, Beatles history is analyzed using historical methods. |
| how did the beatles influence society: George Harrison on George Harrison Ashley Kahn, 2020-08-04 • 2022 ASCAP Foundation Special Recognition Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award in Pop Music George Harrison on George Harrison is an authoritative, chronologically arranged anthology of Harrison's most revealing and illuminating interviews, personal correspondence, and writings, spanning the years 1962 to 2001. This compendium of his words and ideas proves that point repeatedly, revealing his passion for music, his focus on spirituality, and his responsibility as a celebrity, as well as a sense of deep commitment and humor. Though known as the Quiet Beatle, Harrison was arguably the most thoughtful and certainly the most outspoken of the famous four. |
| how did the beatles influence society: Beatlesongs William J. Dowlding, 2009-09-29 A complete and fascinating chronicle of Beatles music and history, Beatlesongs details the growth, evolution, and dissolution of the most influential group of out time. Drawing together information from sources that include interviews, insider accounts, magazines, and news wire services, this is a complete profile of every Beatles song ever written -- from recording details such as who played which instruments and sang what harmonies to how each song fared on the charts and how other musicians and critics felt about it. Chronologically arranged by U.K. release date, Beatlesongs nails down dates, places, participants, and other intriguing facts in a truly remarkable portrait of the Liverpudlian legends. Behind each song is a story -- like Paul's criticism of George's guitar playing during the Rubber Soul sessions, John's acid trip during the Sgt. Pepper's session, and the selection process for the Revolver album cover. And carefully examined along the way are the Beatles' evolving musical talents, their stormy private lives, and their successful -- and unsuccessful -- collaborations. Beatlesongs is truly an inside look at the Fab Four and a treasure for all their fans. |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beatles Bibliography Michael Brocken, Melissa Davis, 2012 |
| how did the beatles influence society: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry, 2001-12-04 The true story of the Manson murders. |
| how did the beatles influence society: Beatles '66 Steve Turner, 2016-10-25 A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose groundbreaking legacy would forever change music and popular culture. They started off as hysteria-inducing pop stars playing to audiences of screaming teenage fans and ended up as musical sages considered responsible for ushering in a new era. The year that changed everything for the Beatles was 1966—the year of their last concert and their first album, Revolver, that was created to be listened to rather than performed. This was the year the Beatles risked their popularity by retiring from live performances, recording songs that explored alternative states of consciousness, experimenting with avant-garde ideas, and speaking their minds on issues of politics, war, and religion. It was the year their records were burned in America after John’s explosive claim that the group was more popular than Jesus, the year they were hounded out of the Philippines for snubbing its First Lady, the year John met Yoko Ono, and the year Paul conceived the idea for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. On the fiftieth anniversary of this seminal year, music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner slows down the action to investigate in detail the enormous changes that took place in the Beatles’ lives and work during 1966. He looks at the historical events that had an impact on the group, the music they made that in turn profoundly affected the culture around them, and the vision that allowed four young men from Liverpool to transform popular music and serve as pioneers for artists from Coldplay to David Bowie, Jay-Z to U2. By talking to those close to the group and by drawing on his past interviews with key figures such as George Martin, Timothy Leary, and Ravi Shankar—and the Beatles themselves—Turner gives us the compelling, definitive account of the twelve months that contained everything the Beatles had been and anticipated everything they would still become. |
| how did the beatles influence society: Beatleness Candy Leonard, 2016-07-05 “A must-have for Beatles fans looking for new insight . . . Leonard uncovers fresh ideas [that] . . . six decades of Beatles literature passed over. —The Spectrum Part 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 February 7, 1964, they immediately became a constant, compelling presence in fans’ lives. For the next six years, the band presented a nonstop deluge of steadily evolving sounds, ideas, and images that transformed the childhood and adolescence of millions of baby boomers and nurtured a relationship unique in history. Exploring that relationship against the backdrop of the sexual revolution, political assassinations, the Vietnam War, and other events, Beatleness examines critically the often-heard assertion that the Beatles “changed everything” and shows how—through the interplay between the group, the fans, and the culture—that change came about. Beatleness incorporates hundreds of hours of in-depth fan interviews and includes many fan vignettes. Offering a fresh perspective and new insights on the Beatles phenomenon, it allows readers to experience—or re-experience—what it was like to be a young person during those transformative years. |
| how did the beatles influence society: "We are the Mods" Christine Jacqueline Feldman, 2009 Drawing on archival research, oral history interviews, and participant observation, this examination of the adoption and adaptation of Mod style across geographic space also maps its various interpretations over time, from the early 1960s to the present. The book traces the Mod youth culture from its genesis in the dimly lit clubs of London's Soho. where it began as a way for young people to reconfigure modernity after the chaos of World War II, to its contemporary, country-specific expressions. By examining Mod culture in the United States, Germany, and Japan alongside the United Kingdom, We Are the Mods contrasts the postwar development of Mod in those countries that lost the war with those that won. The book illuminates the culture's fashion, music, iconography, and gender aesthetics, to create a compelling portrait of a transnational subculture. --Book Jacket. |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beatles Bob Spitz, 2012-06-25 The definitive biography of The Beatles, hailed as irresistible by the New York Times, riveting by the Boston Globe, and masterful by Time. As soon as The Beatles became famous, the spin machine began to construct a myth -- one that has continued to this day. But the truth is much more interesting, much more exciting, and much more moving -- the highs and the lows, the love and the rivalry, the awe and the jealousy, the drugs, the tears, the thrill, and the magic to never be repeated. In this vast, revelatory, exuberantly acclaimed, and bestselling book, Bob Spitz has written the biography for which Beatles fans have long waited. |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Unreleased Beatles Richie Unterberger, 2006 A survey of the significant body of recorded works by the Beatles that were not released includes discussions on an array of live concert performances, home demo recordings, studio outtakes, and more, in a chronologically arranged volume that includes coverage of unreleased video footage. Original. |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beatles Extraordinary Plagiarists MR Edgar O. Cruz, MR Justin John Mata, 2012-07 Well-researched and daring! A bomb waiting to explode! Revolutionary! THE BEATLES: EXTRAORDINARY PLAGIARISTS by EDGAR O. CRUZ cuts the Beatles? apple to reveal the core of the artistry: Where did all the pumping and smashing songs by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came from? Following their creative cycle, it presents the origination of the 213 officially released songs, the first it is ever attempted. The brief of two decades of extensive research and editorial work, this 172-page book in seven chapters details how African-Americans shaped the art of the Four Lads of Liverpool and made them the most viable rock act of all time. Based on the recollections of the Beatles and the group's constant insiders, past & present musicologists and pop culture historians, authoritative sources such as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, NME, Playboy, and the author's own unique probing on the subject, here's the Beatles naked! |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beatles and Economics Samuel R. Staley, 2020-03-09 The Beatles are considered the most influential popular music act of the twentieth century, widely recognized for their influence on popular culture. The inability of other bands and artists to imitate their fame has prompted questions such as: How did the Beatles become so successful? What factors contributed to their success? Why did they break up? The Beatles and Economics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Making of a Cultural Revolution answers these questions using the lens of economic analysis. Economics provides the prism for explaining why their success—while legendary in scale—is not mythic. This book explores how the band’s commercial achievements were intimately tied to the larger context of economic globalization and rebuilding post-World War II. It examines how the Beatles’ time in Hamburg is best understood as an investment in human capital, and why the entrepreneurial growth mindset was critical to establishing a scalable market niche and sustaining the Beatles’ ability to lead and shape emerging markets in entertainment and popular music. Later chapters consider how the economics of decision making and organizational theory helps us to understand the band’s break-up at its economic peak. This essential text is of interest to anyone interested in the economic dynamics and social forces that shape cultural change. |
| how did the beatles influence society: Fatherland Robert Harris, 1993 What would have happened if Hitler had won World War II? |
| how did the beatles influence society: A Hard Day's Write Steve Turner, 2010 MUSICAL SCORES, LYRICS & LIBRETTI. Who was 'just seventeen' and made Paul's heart go 'boom'? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Where's Penny Lane? In A Hard Day's Write, Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by investigating the events immortalised in The Beatles' music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture's collective imagination. |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beatles on Film Roland Reiter, 2008 This book provides the production history and a contextual interpretation of The Beatles' movies (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be) and describes their ability to project the group's image at different stages in their career. It also includes a discussion of all of The Beatles' promotional films and videos, as well as their television cartoon series and the self-produced television special Magical Mystery Tour. Along with The Beatles' feature movies and promos, this analysis also contains documentaries, such as The Compleat Beatles and Anthology, as well as dramatizations of the band's history, such as Backbeat, The Hours and Times, and Two of Us. |
| how did the beatles influence society: Revolution in the Head Ian MacDonald, 2008 As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis, Blur and Kula Shaker. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply changed the world. Fully updated to include material from The Beatles Live at the BBC and the Anthology series, this acclaimed book goes back to the heart of The Beatles - their records. Drawing on a unique resource of knowledge and experience to 'read' their 241 tracks - chronologically from their first amateur efforts in 1957 to 'Real Love', their final 'reunion' recording in 1995 - Ian MacDonald has created an engrossing classic of popular criticism in which the extraordinary songs of The Beatles remain a central and continually surprising presence. |
| how did the beatles influence society: A, B, See the Beatles! Jill Davis, 2015-04 Arguably the most influential band in history, the Beatles shaped an era and were the soundtrack of a generation. What better way to celebrate their influence than with a book that can be shared with the youngest generation of all? |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beat Goes on Marion Leonard, Rob Strachan, 2010-01-01 In 2001 the Guinness Book of Records declared Liverpool the “City of Pop” for producing more hit records than any other city. The Beat Goes On is a historical account of popular music in Liverpool that explores the contextual, creative, and geographical factors that have contributed to the city’s status as a major center of musical creativity. With contributions from experts in popular music history, cultural geography, ethnography, and musicology, alongside essays and interviews with Liverpool musicians and rare archival images, this volume offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the city’s unique place in the realm of popular music. |
| how did the beatles influence society: Solid State Kenneth Womack, 2019-10-15 Music writer Womack delivers a fascinating, in-depth look at the creation of Abbey Road, the Beatles' penultimate album released 50 years ago.... Womack displays a detailed and insightful analysis that fans will hope he applies to the band's other albums.― Publishers Weekly Acclaimed Beatles historian Kenneth Womack offers the most definitive account yet of the writing, recording, mixing, and reception of Abbey Road. In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what became their final album together. Abbey Road introduced a number of new techniques and technologies to the Beatles' sound, and included Come Together, Something, and Here Comes the Sun, which all emerged as classics. Womack's colorful retelling of how this landmark album was written and recorded is a treat for fans of the Beatles. Solid State takes readers back to 1969 and into EMI's Abbey Road Studio, which boasted an advanced solid state transistor mixing desk. Womack focuses on the dynamics between John, Paul, George, Ringo, and producer George Martin and his team of engineers, who set aside (for the most part) the tensions and conflicts that had arisen on previous albums to create a work with an innovative (and, among some fans and critics, controversial) studio-bound sound that prominently included the new Moog synthesizer, among other novelties. As Womack shows, Abbey Road was the culmination of the instrumental skills, recording equipment, and artistic vision that the band and George Martin had developed since their early days in the same studio seven years earlier. A testament to the group's creativity and their producer's ingenuity, Solid State is required reading for all fans of the Beatles and the history of rock 'n' roll. |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Beatles and the 1960s Kenneth L. Campbell, 2021-08-12 The Beatles are widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history and their career has been the subject of many biographies. Yet the band's historical significance has not received sustained academic treatment to date. In The Beatles' Reception in the 1960s, Kenneth L. Campbell uses the Beatles as a lens through which to explore the sweeping, panoramic history of the social, cultural and political transformations that occurred in the 1960s. It draws on audience reception theory and untapped primary source material, including student newspapers, to understand how listeners would have interpreted the Beatles' songs and albums not only in Britain and the United States, but also globally. Taking a year-by-year approach, each chapter analyses the external influences the Beatles absorbed, consciously or unconsciously, from the culture surrounding them. Some key topics include race relations, gender dynamics, political and cultural upheavals, the Vietnam War and the evolution of rock music and popular culture. The book will also address the resurgence of the Beatles' popularity in the 1980s, as well as the relevance of The Beatles' ideals of revolutionary change to our present day. This is essential reading for anyone looking for an accessible yet rigorous study of the historical relevance of the Beatles in a crucial decade of social change. |
| how did the beatles influence society: This Day in Music Neil Cossar, 2014-08 Births, deaths and marriages, No1 singles, drug busts and arrests, famous gigs and awards... all these and much more appear in this fascinating 50 year almanac.Using a page for every day of the calendar year, the author records a variety of rock and pop events that took place on a given day of the month across the years.This Day in Music is fully illustrated with hundreds of pictures, cuttings and album covers, making this the must-have book for any pop music fan. |
| how did the beatles influence society: The Ultimate Biography Of The Bee Gees: Tales Of The Brothers Gibb Melinda Bilyeu, Hector Cook, Andrew Môn Hughes, 2011-01-01 The definitive biography, now updated to include the death of Robin Gibb in May 2012. The Bee Gee's journey from Fifties child act to musical institution is one of pop's most turbulent legends. Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb somehow managed to survive changing musical fashions and bitter personal feuds to create musical partnership that has already lasted four times as long as The Beatles. Described by the authors as their objective tribute, this unflinching biography chronicles everything - the good, the bad... and the bushed-up. Youthful delinquency, disastrous marriages, bitter lawsuits, gay sex scandals, serious drug problems and the death of younger brother Andy have sometimes made the personal lives of the Brothers Gibb look as bleak as the low spots of a career that once reduced them to playing the Batley Variety Club. Yet every time the Bee Gees roller coaster seemed derailed for good, they recorded and went on to even greater triumphs. Today they are revered among pop music's all-time great performers, producers and songwriters. But the true story of their success and the high price they paid for it has never been fully revealed... until now. This new edition of The Ultimate Biography incorporates a complete listing of every song written or recorded by the Gibbs. |
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We plan to accurately portray the cultural influence of The Beatles on the 1960’s youth and their continued influence into the present through a dance performance. We intend to dive into the …
3 The Beatles and the Spectacle of Youth 1 John Muncie - Springer
McCartney warned in 1964, the Beatles never saw themselves as spokespeople for a generation; in Lennon's view, all that happened was that they grew up. So to what extent should we …
It Was 50 Years Ago Today: Reading the Beatles as a Challenge to ...
influence on social change. There is a particular emphasis in this work on the role of popular music in general, and The Beatles in particular, as being key to this in terms of high-profile and …
She Loves You: The Beatles and Female Fanaticism - uwo.ca
Particularly in the United States, women began searching for liberation in various areas of life, such as freedom from traditional domestic roles imposed by the historical patriarchy of society. …
THE BEATLES IN CONTEXT - Cambridge University Press
The Beatles in Context brings together key themes in which to better explore the Beatles lives and work and understand their cultural legacy, focusing on the people and places central to the …
'Helter-Skelter'?: The Beatles, the British New Left, and the ... - JSTOR
In 1968, the Beatles attempted for the first time to introduce into the family-centred-conservative "Beatles culture" a few avant-garde economic and artistic elements, and, for the first time, the …
The Beatles on Film - Analysis of Movies, Documentaries, Spoofs …
Beatles, were supported and promoted by visionary managers who were aware of the importance of appearance and attitude expected by a large segment of a young mass audience.
The Impact of the Beatles on Pop Music in Australia: 1963-66
the public interest in the Beatles' visit that a half holiday was declared in Adelaide, while good weather was a further factor that helps explain the size of the Adelaide greeting.
She Told Me What to Say: The Beatles and Girl-Group Discourse
In recent years, however, some academic papers and Internet sources on the Beatles and the girl groups have appeared, all claiming that the Beatles’ relationship to the girl groups …
College Music Symposium, Volume 60, No. 1 Spring, 2020 - JSTOR
Everett and Riley emphasize the elucidation of musical structure in clear and consistent analyses of specific Beatles songs, and they supplement these analyses with historical overviews, …
In the Shadow of the Beast: The Impact of Aleister Crowley on New ...
his far-reaching influence, the time and society of which Crowley was a product, and why the acknowledgement of his impact should be seriously considered when attempting to …
Sources of American Styles in the Music of the Beatles - JSTOR
Cartney's love for popular music of the older generation was only one of a number of American influences that shaped the Beatles' music- but one that in no small way helped assure their widespread and en- during popularity with people of all ages.
The Beatles and Their Influence on Culture - National Capital …
2 According to the webpage www.imdb.com, the movie is inspired by the Beatles’ song “She’s Leaving Home.” 10 The centre of the hippie culture was SanFrancisco, California.
THE BEATLES AND THE COUNTERCULTURE - The College of New …
As both agents and models of change, the Beatles played a key role in establishing three main attributes of the embryonic counterculture: the maturing sensibility of rock music, greater personal freedom as expressed by physical appearance, and experimentation with drugs.
How Did The Beatles Influence Society Full PDF
how did the beatles influence society: Joy and Fear John F. Lyons, 2021-02-23 For many, the Beatles offered a delightful alternative to the dull and the staid, while for others, the mop-top haircuts, the unsettling music, and the hysterical girls that greeted the British imports wherever
The Counterculture, the Straight Society, and the Beatles
emergence of the counterculture held an influence on the early musical shifts of the Beatles, and vice-versa. Why is it that John Lennon and the Beatles, as well as the counterculture, appreciated Dylan’s new musical style as much as they did? One reason may have been
The Beatles' Cultural Influences - Western Technical College
In 1964, the nation was experiencing immense cultural changes; and in the midst of it all the Beatles arrived from Liverpool, England. President Kennedy had been assassinated just months earlier; the danger of war threatened in Vietnam; the nation was coping with racial conflicts; and drug use was becoming popular among our youth.
The Effect of the Beatles on Society - SillyTutu
By 1970 though, the Beatles had already made a huge impact on society. A revolutionary group responsible for bombing three business buildings called themselves
THE SUMMER OF LOVE: HIPPIE CULTURE AND THE BEATLES IN …
Entering into “the zone of maximal contact,” the Beatles’ music inspired thousands to make a hippie pilgrimage to Haight-Ashbury.1 Known to its residents as “the Haight,” this San Francisco district adapted to the influx of hippies with the creation of an alternative social order, including functional counterinstitutions to serve the needs of th...
'Here, There and Everywhere': The Beatles, America, and ... - JSTOR
11 Jan 2016 · Paying attention to the political economy underpinning the Beatles' success, the international hybridity at the heart of their cultural work, and the diverse ways in which Americans inter-preted the Beatles, the article argues that the band was a primary vector of pop culture's increas-ing globality in the 1960s.
EXPLORING THE CULTUR AL INFLUENCE OF THE BEATLES …
We plan to accurately portray the cultural influence of The Beatles on the 1960’s youth and their continued influence into the present through a dance performance. We intend to dive into the sociocultural effects and interpret them through a choreographic performance. We aim to display historical accuracy through music, costume, and choreography.
3 The Beatles and the Spectacle of Youth 1 John Muncie - Springer
McCartney warned in 1964, the Beatles never saw themselves as spokespeople for a generation; in Lennon's view, all that happened was that they grew up. So to what extent should we expect that a social history of the late 1950s and 1960s can …
It Was 50 Years Ago Today: Reading the Beatles as a Challenge to ...
influence on social change. There is a particular emphasis in this work on the role of popular music in general, and The Beatles in particular, as being key to this in terms of high-profile and an increased visual representation due to the rise in popularity of TV in the home and the resurgence of the British film
She Loves You: The Beatles and Female Fanaticism - uwo.ca
Particularly in the United States, women began searching for liberation in various areas of life, such as freedom from traditional domestic roles imposed by the historical patriarchy of society. According to Marcy Lanza, an early American fan of the Beatles, the …
THE BEATLES IN CONTEXT - Cambridge University Press
The Beatles in Context brings together key themes in which to better explore the Beatles lives and work and understand their cultural legacy, focusing on the people and places central to the Beatles careers, the visual media that contributed to their enduring success, and the culture and politics of their time. kenneth womack
'Helter-Skelter'?: The Beatles, the British New Left, and the
In 1968, the Beatles attempted for the first time to introduce into the family-centred-conservative "Beatles culture" a few avant-garde economic and artistic elements, and, for the first time, the band's artistic limitations, as well as its conservative positions, were exposed.
The Beatles on Film - Analysis of Movies, Documentaries, Spoofs …
Beatles, were supported and promoted by visionary managers who were aware of the importance of appearance and attitude expected by a large segment of a young mass audience.
The Impact of the Beatles on Pop Music in Australia: 1963-66
the public interest in the Beatles' visit that a half holiday was declared in Adelaide, while good weather was a further factor that helps explain the size of the Adelaide greeting.
She Told Me What to Say: The Beatles and Girl-Group Discourse
In recent years, however, some academic papers and Internet sources on the Beatles and the girl groups have appeared, all claiming that the Beatles’ relationship to the girl groups demonstrates...
College Music Symposium, Volume 60, No. 1 Spring, 2020 - JSTOR
Everett and Riley emphasize the elucidation of musical structure in clear and consistent analyses of specific Beatles songs, and they supplement these analyses with historical overviews, explaining the broad musical influences that impacted and preceded the Beatles.
In the Shadow of the Beast: The Impact of Aleister Crowley on …
his far-reaching influence, the time and society of which Crowley was a product, and why the acknowledgement of his impact should be seriously considered when attempting to understand the cultural and religious climate of the late 19th to the early 20th centuries.
The Beat Generation Is Now about Everything - JSTOR
Beats actually faced the truth of their society Given such an emotionally exposed and vulnerable position, it was necessary to maintain one's 'cool' as much as possible" (192). Ray Carney's essay on Cassavetes's Shadows explores a Beat aesthetic paradox which could be applied to Kerouac and his stylistic innovations as well.
