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The Beatles Across Generations: Scholarship, Memory, and Cultural Reception

The Beatles Across Generations: Scholarship, Memory, and Cultural Reception

Pace, Tom
Hamblin, Terry

Hardcover

General MusicPop/RockMusic Reference

PREORDER - Expected ship date July 8, 2027

ISBN13: 9798216449270
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jul 8 2027
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Beatles Across Generations explores how the Beatles have come to matter differently over time and to whom.

The Beatles' influence transcends their era of peak activity in the 1960s, speaking to audiences well beyond their youthful contemporaries. Featuring contributions from Mersey Beat founder Bill Harry and Beatles scholar Ken Womack, this book examines how the music, persona, and cultural impact of the Beatles have been interpreted through the lenses of five generations, each bringing distinct values, challenges, and cultural experiences.

Generational reception is not static or superficial, but a dynamic cultural process shaped by intersections of age, identity, historical moment, and media practices. The Beatles Across Generations treats generation not as a demographic label but as a cultural analytic. For instance, a Boomer's memory of The Ed Sullivan Show cannot be understood in the same framework as a Gen Z fan discovering Beatles remixes on TikTok. These are not merely chronological differences but qualitatively distinct cultural processes. This framing allows one to move beyond nostalgia or anecdote to show how distinct cohorts - Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z - encounter, reinterpret, and even contest the Beatles in ways shaped by the media, logic, and contradictions of their own time.

While the book is organized thematically to highlight motifs that cut across generations - origins, legacy, memory, and media - it explicitly includes perspectives from and on all five generations.

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