Fandom and the Beatles: The ACT You've Known for All These Years

ISBN-13: 9780190917869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 296 str.

Kenneth Womack; Kit O'Toole

Recenzje

Does the world need one more Beatles book? When that work brushes aside decades of myth and focuses on an underexplored area DL Beatles fandom DL it certainly does, with the rigor worthy of cultural heroes whose historic importance continues to grow.

O autorze

Kenneth Womack is one of the world's foremost writers and thinkers about the Beatles. In addition to such titles as Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles (2007) and The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four (2014), he is the author of a two-volume biography of the life and work of Beatles producer George Martin, including Maximum Volume (2017) and Sound Pictures (2018). His latest work, Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles (2019), was feted as the go-to book by the Los Angeles Times for readers interested in learning about the band's swan song. Kit O'Toole is a Chicago-based independent scholar who has written about rock, jazz, and R&B for over 25 years. She is the author of Michael Jackson FAQ (2015) and Songs We Were Singing: Guided Tours through the Beatles' Lesser-Known Tracks (2015). O'Toole is a contributor to the anthologies Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and Culture: One Planet, One Humanity, and the Media (2016), New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today (2016), and The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love (2017).