The Cambridge companion to the Beatles /

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Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description:xiii, 316 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge companions to music
Cambridge companions to music.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7899659
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Other authors / contributors:Womack, Kenneth.
ISBN:9780521869652 (hbk.)
052186965X (hbk.)
9780521689762 (pbk.)
0521689767 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes discography.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Chronology of the Beatles' lives and works
  • Introducing the Beatles
  • Part I. Background
  • 1. Six boys, six Beatles: the formative years, 1950-1962
  • Appendix: the repertoire, 1957-1962
  • 2. The Beatles as recording artists
  • Part II. Works
  • 3. Rock and roll music
  • 4. 'Try thinking more': Rubber Soul and the Beatles' transformation of pop
  • 5. Magical mystery tours, and other trips: yellow submarines, newspaper taxis, and the Beatles' psychedelic years
  • 6. Revolution Ian Inglis
  • 7. On their way home: the Beatles in 1969 and 1970
  • 8. Apple records
  • 9. The solo years
  • 10. Any time at all: the Beatles' free phrase rhythms
  • Appendix: the Beatles' canon on compact disc
  • Part III. History and Influence
  • 11. The Beatles as zeitgeist
  • 12. Beatles news: product line extensions and the rock canon
  • 13. 'An abstraction, like Christmas': the Beatles for sale and for keeps
  • General discography