Kenneth Womack

Long and Winding Roads, Revised Edition (eBook, PDF)

The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Revised Edition, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself. By mapping the group's development as an artistic fusion, Womack traces the Beatles' creative arc from their first, primitive recordings through Abbey Road and the twilight of their career.

In this revised edition, Womack addresses new insights in Beatles-related scholarship since the original publication of Long and Winding Roads, along with hundreds of the group's outtakes released in the intervening years. The updated edition also affords attention to the Beatles' musical debt to Rhythm and Blues, as well as to key recent discoveries that vastly shift our understanding of formative events in the band's timeless story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501387081
• Artikelnr.: 66293490

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Womack is one of the world's foremost writers and thinkers about the Beatles. He is Professor of English and Popular Music at Monmouth University, USA. He also serves as the Music Culture critic for Salon, as well as a contributor to a host of print and web outlets, including Slate, Billboard, Time, Variety, USA Today, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, The Independent, NBC News, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of The Beatles Encyclopedia (2014), Maximum Volume (2017), Sound Pictures (2018), Solid State (2019), and John Lennon 1980 (2020). In October 2020, Rolling Stone magazine published a feature story outlining Womack's groundbreaking research associated with Lennon's life and work.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The End 1. The Beginning 2. A Cellarful of Noise 3. And the Band
Begins to Play 4. Rock and Roll Music 5. The Biggest Showbiz Town Ever 6.
War-Weary 7. Yesterday and Today 8. Plastic Soul 9. The End of the Road 10.
The Act You've Known for All These Years 11. Roll Up for the Mystery Tour
12. Whiter Shades of Pale 13. Getting Back 14. The Dream Is Over Epilogue:
Long Live the Dream Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes Index