Description
About the Author
Kenneth Womack is professor of English and dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University. Kathryn B. Cox is doctoral candidate in historical musicology at the University of Michigan.
Reviews
Largely because of the Beatles, 1967 was the most important year for song since 1840. This study of the Beatles' work of 1967 offers deep and stimulating new research and speculation on the surrounding politics, communications media, commerce and the counterculture; inspiration ranging from non-western to avant garde musics; tension in the Beatles' masquerade; the role of gender in reception; and the album's influence on followers. -- Walter Everett, University of Michigan
In this fifty-year retrospective on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Magical Mystery Tour film/EP/LP, Womack, Cox, and their writers have done what a good recap of these pop artifacts should do: not merely to 'celebrate' them for having aged so well, but to wrench readers out of their by now routine responses to the Beatles so as to have them experience, as if for the first time, the group's supreme masterpiece, their subsequent misadventures in film-making, and all of the lasting music they created in 1967, the year of the Summer of Love. -- Steven Hamelman, Coastal Carolina University
Book Information
ISBN 9781498534734
Author Kenneth Womack
Format Hardback
Page Count 254
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 549g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 162mm * 25mm