"Beatleness: How the Beatles and their Fans Remade the World"
When:
Tuesday, Sep 16, 2014 7:00p -
8:00p
Tuesday, Sep 16, 2014 7:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Trident Booksellers & Cafe
338 Newbury St
Boston, MA 02215
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, Music
Event website:
http://tridentbookscafe.com/event/beatleness
Join sociologist and first-generation Beatles fan Candy Leonard for a talk about how The Beatles really changed the world.
About the book: 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 non-stop 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 critically examines 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 fans, Beatleness allows readers to experience—or re-experience—what it was like to be a young person during those eventful and transformative years. Its fresh approach offers many new insights into the entire Beatle phenomenon and explains why the group still means so much to so many.
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