The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles
by Edited by Kenneth WomackEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-12-14
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
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. · Traces the group's 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
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Chronology of the Beatles' lives and works | |
| Introducing the Beatles Kenneth Womack | |
| Background | |
| Six boys, six Beatles: the formative years, 1950-1962 | |
| Appendix: the repertoire, 1957-1962 | |
| The Beatles as recording artists | |
| Works | |
| Rock and roll music | |
| 'Try thinking more': Rubber Soul and the Beatles' transformation of pop | |
| Magical mystery tours, and other trips: yellow submarines, newspaper taxis, and the Beatles' psychedelic years | |
| Revolution | |
| On their way home: the Beatles in 1969 and 1970 | |
| Apple records | |
| The solo years | |
| Any time at all: the Beatles' free phrase rhythms | |
| Appendix: the Beatles' canon on compact disc | |
| History and Influence | |
| The Beatles as zeitgeist | |
| Beatles news: product line extensions and the rock canon | |
| 'An abstraction, like Christmas': the Beatles for sale and for keeps | |
| General discography | |
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