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Kenneth Womack
The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles' beloved roadie, assistant, confidant and friend
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From Please Please Me to Abbey Road, this collection tells the fascinating story of the Beatles - their individual backgrounds, their major works, and their enduring musical legacy. Providing detailed…
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SOUND PICTURES offers a powerful glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. The second book of two, SOUND PICTURES traces the story…
Mike Frankel
Explores the author's career and evolution as a photographer during the turbulent 1960s, including his experimental photographs of some of the most significant concerts and artists in rock history.
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Kenneth Womack, Kenneth L. Campbell, Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Songs: The Music of Bruce Springsteen, Album-by-Album, Song-by-Song is an authoritative guide coauthored by renowned music scholar Kenneth Womack and music historian Kenneth L. Campbell and offering an in-depth…
The World Trade Center Through Time addresses the fascinating architectural and cultural history behind the evolution and construction of the Twin Towers. Adorned with period illustrations, the book takes readers…
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A fascinating look at the history of the Beatles, from their formative years through the present day, as detailed in hundreds of entries chock-full of information never before shared with…
The Time Diaries narrates a pair of love stories separated by a century and an ocean, yet bound together by the power of fine art as a means for elevating…
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This condensed paperback encyclopedia documents the enduring cultural impact and musical legacy of the Beatles, providing readers with a one-stop resource to the Fab Four’s compelling story and breadth of…
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“Womack’s meticulous research results in a detailed analysis’ Forbes online
On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded just outside of Oklahoma City’s Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. Within a matter of hours, the FBI launched the largest manhunt…
The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles' beloved friend, confidant, and roadie.
Malcolm Evans, the Beatles' long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend, was an invaluable member of…
John Lennon, 1980: The Final Days in the Life of Beatle John tells the story of the legendary musician’s incredible last year.
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Provides a guide to the contexts of The Beatles’ unparalleled cultural achievements, from their early performances to cultural legacy. Wide-ranging chapters are devoted to the many and varied influences on…
From Please Please Me to Abbey Road - the fascinating story of the Fab Four’s creation, works, and enduring musical legacy.
The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles' beloved friend, confidant, and roadie
Provides a guide to the contexts of The Beatles' unparalleled cultural achievements, from their early performances to cultural legacy. Wide-ranging chapters are devoted to the many and varied influences on…
Kenneth Womack (Monmouth University)
Azza Amari, a headstrong, hijab-wearing international student flees her dangerous life in the Paris ghetto to enroll at staid Northwestern Ohio State College.
Kenneth Womack offers a glimpse into the mind, the music, and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. The first book of two, Maximum Volume traces George Martin’s early…
William Baker,Kenneth Womack
The texts assembled in this bibliography demonstrate the ways in which literary theory and criticism make and remake themselves in an effort to challenge and understand the boundaries that exist…
Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught…
The Beatles are probably the most photographed band in history and are the subject of numerous biographical studies, but a surprising dearth of academic scholarship addresses the Fab Four.
Todd Davis,Kenneth Womack
As with other books in the Transitions series, Formalist Criticism and Reader-response Theory includes readings of a range of widely-studied texts, including Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane…
The story of the legendary musician’s incredible last year.
John Lennon 1980 traces the powerful, life-affirming story of the former Beatle’s remarkable comeback after five years of self-imposed retirement. Lennon’s…
Jerry Zolten
By assembling a host of essays that engage in interdisciplinary commentary regarding one of Western culture’s most enduring artistic and socially radicalizing phenomena, this book offers a cohesive, intellectual, and…
Acclaimed Beatles historian Kenneth Womack offers the most definitive account yet of the writing, recording, mixing, and reception of Abbey Road.In February 1969, the Beatles began working on what became…
Kenneth Womack,Jason Kruppa
Renowned Beatles expert Ken Womack and music historian Jason Kruppa explore George Harrison and Eric Clapton’s musical and personal collaboration, friendship, and rivalry.
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Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You’ve Known for All These Years offers an insightful look into the band’s enduring appeal through fan responses, exploring how The Beatles have inspired…
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Kenneth Womack (Monmouth University, West Long Branch, USA)
Sheds light on the Beatles’ story - from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early…
More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles. This work–the second of two volumes–offers a powerful and intimate…
A follow-up to the successful 2007 edition, which, despite numerous Beatles-related books published in the intervening years, still stands alone for its chronological, album-by-album analysis of the band’s work –
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Addresses the Beatles’ impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music.
Addresses the band’s impact on how we think about gender, popular culture, and the formal and poetic qualities of music.
Divided into four sections, this collection of essays traces the interpretive, pedagogic and theoretical concerns inherent in the study of literature, ethics and modes of criticism. The book is a…
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