New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles

1. Introduction: Making It New with the Beatles
Kenneth Womack

Part I. The Beatles in/as History

2. Getting Better: The Beatles and the Angry Young Men
Matthew Schneider

3. Mystery Trips, English Gardens, and Songs Your Mother Should Know: The Beatles and British Nostalgia in 1967
Kathryn B. Cox

4. Blackbird Singing: Paul McCartney’s Romance of Racial Harmony and Post-Racial America
Katie Kapurch, Jon Marc Smith

Part II. Artistry and the Beatles

5.
Beatle Country: A Bluegrass ‘Concept Album’ from 1966
Laura Turner

6. Spatial Counterpoint and the Impossible Experience of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Gabriel Lubell

7. “Blue Jay Way”: The Imagery of Pure Consciousness in Selected Beatles songs
Gayatri Devi

8. George Harrison and the Influence of American Popular Song
David Thurmaier

Part III. Fandom and the Beatles

9. The Beatles Christmas Records… Unwrapped: A Closer Look at the Fan Club Discs
Tony Paglia

10. “She Said She Said”: How Women Have Transformed from Fans to Authors in Beatles History
Kit O’Toole

11. Crying, Waiting, Hoping: The Beatles, Girl Culture, and the Melodramatic Mode
Katie Kapurch

12. Revolution 2.0: Beatles Fan Scholarship in the Digital Age
Jeffrey Roessner

Part IV. Teaching and Writing the Beatles

13. The Beatles in the Classroom: John, Paul, George, and Ringo Go to College
Punch Shaw

14. The John Lennon Series and “Factional” Narrative Biography
Jude Southerland Kessler

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Music, American Culture