Fandom and The Beatles: The Act You’ve Known for All These Years 1st Edition Kenneth Womack

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Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0190917881
• ISBN 13: 9780190917883
• Author: Kenneth Womack

More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base from the 1960s. Why have those first-generation fans continued following the Beatles and are now introducing their grandchildren to the group? Why are current teens affected by the band’s music? And perhaps most importantly, how and why do the Beatles continue to resonate with successive generations? Unlike other bands of their era, the Beatles seem permanently frozen in time, having never descended into “nostalgia act” territory. Instead, even after the announcement of the band’s breakup in 1970, the group has maintained its cultural and musical relevance. Their timeless quality appeals to younger generations while maintaining the loyalty of older fans. While the Beatles indeed represent a specific time period, their music and words address issues as meaningful today as they were during the Summer of Love: politics, war, sex, drugs, art, and creative liberation. As the first anthology to assess the nature of fan response and the band’s enduring appeal, Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You’ve Known for All These Years defines and explores these unique qualities and the key ways in which this particular pop fusion has inspired such loyalty and multigenerational popularity.

Table contents:

Part I. Yesterday
1. Beatles Fandom: A De Facto Religion
2. The Beatles and Their Fans: Image and the Media, October 1963–February 1964
3. John Lennon as Pop-Cultural and Political Icon: Giving Peace a Chance
Part II. Today
4. Magic Circles: The Fan Sites, Fanzines, and Festivals at the Heart of Beatles Fandom
5. The Beatles, Gender, and Sexuality: I Am He as You Are He as You Are Me
6. How Does It Feel to Be: Beatles Tribute Bands and the Fans Who Dream Them
7. A Hard Day’s Write: Beatles Fanfic and the Quantum of Creativity
Part III. Tomorrow
8. The Beatles: Today . . . and Tomorrow
9. Anthems of Whose Generation? The Beatles and the Millennials
10. Beatles Heritage Tourism in Liverpool: Standing at the Crossroads?

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