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Beatleness : How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World. / Candy Leonard.
The Beatles arrived in the United States on February 7, 1964, and immediately became a constant, compelling presence in fans' lives. For the next six years, the band presented a nonstop deluge of sounds, words, images, and ideas, transforming the childhood and adolescence of millions of baby boomers.Beatleness explains how the band became a source of emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual nurturance in fans' lives, creating a relationship that was historically unique. Looking at that relationship against the backdrop of the sexual revolution, the Vietnam War, political assassinations, and other events of those tumultuous years, the book examines critically the often-heard assertion that the Beatles changed everything" and shows how—through the interplay between the group, the fans, and the culture—that change came about.A generational memoir and cultural history based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with first-generation...
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- ISBN: 9781628724554 (electronic bk)
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2014.
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Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Arcade Publishing, 2014. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1374 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB). |
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