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Beatlemania in America: Fan Culture from Below

Autor Andrew Hunt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 oct 2023
When The Beatles arrived in postwar America, Beatlemania swept the nation as hysterical girls flocked to the band and young men grew out their hair. In this book Andrew Hunt explores this wildly enthusiastic fandom from the bottom-up. Showcasing oral histories, fan magazines, club newsletters, newspapers and personal memoirs, he uncovers The Beatles' fan culture from the perspective of Beatlemaniacs, Beatlephobes and ordinary Americans to understand the impact it had on society at large. Offering a cultural history from below, Beatlemania in America highlights previously neglected voices of fans, critics, parents, teachers and politicians. It contextualises the Beatles fandom against a wider, global perspective of changing cultures and shows how this band was part of a wider shift of social change. It delves into who Beatles fans were and shows how their collective voice gave them power. Exploring themes of gender and race in this turbulent and tumultuous era of American history, it highlights the social issues and debates provoked by this subculture which foreshadowed the arrival of an increasingly polarized society.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350291560
ISBN-10: 1350291560
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Draws on a range of primary sources including oral histories, fan magazines, fan club newsletters, newspaper coverage, personal memoirs and more

Notă biografică

Andrew Hunt is Professor of History at University of Waterloo, Canada, where he teaches a course on The Beatles and the Sixties. He is the author of numerous books including The 1980s: A Social History, and We Being Bombing in Five Minutes: Late Cold War Culture in the Age of Reagan.

Cuprins

Introduction1. Early Stirrings: The Origins of American Beatlemania 2. Hysterical Girls and Long-Haired Boys: Beatlemania through a Gendered Lens 3. Blurring the Colour Line: Beatlemania, Race and the African American Experience4. Beatlemania's Discontents: Beatlephobia and Culture Wars in the Mid-sixties 5. The Beatles for Sale: Marketing, Merchandizing and Beatlemania6. Coming Apart: Later Beatlemania in a Time of Torment 7. The Legacies of Beatlemania Conclusion

Recenzii

A fascinating account of the youth craze known as Beatlemania. While explaining the screaming crowds that the Beatles garnered as they toured the U.S., Hunt documents important themes, like how the civil rights movement related to the craze and how merchandising and commodification of the band mattered as much as the music itself. Fans did what they wanted to squeeze meaning out of it all. And before reading this book, I had never heard of anti-Beatles clubs! And just how polarized American audiences were. Just something more to add to an already fascinating treatment of Beatlemania.
Beatlemania in America offers a nuanced look at one of the most consequential cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. The challenge in writing about Beatlemania today is to not only offer new insights, but to communicate the band's ubiquity and disruptiveness. Andrew Hunt has met this challenge.
Andrew Hunt's Beatlemania in America: Fan Culture from Below affords readers with a fascinating study of the fan communities that made the Beatles' pop-cultural explosion a reality for the ages. Drawing on fanzines and oral histories, Hunt brings the contours of Beatlemania to life in new and innovative ways.