Beatles and the 1960s, The: Reception, Revolution, and Social Change

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ISBN-10:

1350107433

ISBN-13:

9781350107434

Released: Sep 09, 2021
Format: Hardcover, 278 pages
Related ISBN: 9781350107441

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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.
Review
“Kenneth L. Campbell's The Beatles and the 1960s: Reception, Revolution, and Social Change explores the Fab Four's extraordinary cultural achievements through a trenchant historical lens. In so doing, Campbell affords readers with a powerful window into the group's reception with each passing masterwork. By tracing the Beatles' artistic growth within the context of key sociocultural shifts during the 1960s, Campbell not only demonstrates the manner in which their work acted as a response to contemporaneous factors, he presciently reveals the ways in which their music continues to resonate into our present day.” ―Kenneth Womack, John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Lie“Whether you grew up with the Beatles or are discovering them for the first time, The Beatles and the 1960s will give you a fresh understanding of the group's historical context, their reception by critics and fans, the growth of their music and personalities alongside their listeners' lives, and their lasting social and cultural legacies. Guiding us from England to Germany, the U.S. and the world beyond, from Beatlemania through films, stadium tours, godlike personae, psychedelia, and revolutionary experimentation to the most crushing breakup in pop history, Kenneth Campbell offers the reader a new appreciation shaped by both contemporaneous opinion and Brexit-era reconsideration, thereby joining social attitudes across the decades that separate one set of culture wars from another. College-newspaper record reviews, comments by world-shaking recording artists, and dozens of perceptive fan interviews are just some of the newly curated sources that bring the Beatles, their audience and their world to life in this volume.” ―Walter Everett, Professor of Music, University of Michigan, USA
About the Author
Kenneth L. Campbell is Professor of History at Monmouth University, USA

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