Fandom and The Beatles: The Act You've Known for All These Years

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· Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith and Michael Butler Murray
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More than fifty years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base from the 1960s. Why have those first-generation fans continued following the Beatles and are now introducing their grandchildren to the group? Why are current teens affected by the band's music? And perhaps most importantly, how and why do the Beatles continue to resonate with successive generations? Unlike other bands of their era, the Beatles seem permanently frozen in time, having never descended into "nostalgia act" territory. Instead, even after the announcement of the band's breakup in 1970, the group has maintained its cultural and musical relevance. Their timeless quality appeals to younger generations while maintaining the loyalty of older fans. While the Beatles indeed represent a specific time period, their music and words address issues as meaningful today as they were during the Summer of Love: politics, war, sex, drugs, art, and creative liberation. As the first anthology to assess the nature of fan response and the band's enduring appeal, Fandom and the Beatles: The Act You've Known for All These Years defines and explores these unique qualities and the key ways in which this particular pop fusion has inspired such loyalty and multigenerational popularity.

About the author

Emily Sutton-Smith is a professional actress and one of the cofounders of an Equity theater in central Michigan. Her stage credits include Out of Orbit; Doublewide; Summer Retreat; Too Much, Too Much, Too Many; Miracle on South Division Street; End Days; The Usual: A Musical Love Story; and The Smell of the Kill.

Michael Butler Murray is a professional actor, narrator, and musician who has voiced over fifty-five audiobooks. His recorded titles run the spectrum from dramatic to comedic fiction and nonfiction titles varying in topics from the Middle East to understanding your dog's olfactory senses.

Kenneth Womack is one of the world's foremost writers and thinkers about the Beatles. His book Solid State was feted as the go-to book by the Los Angeles Times for readers interested in learning about the band's swan song.

Kit O'Toole is a Chicago-based independent scholar who has written about rock, jazz, and R&B for over twenty-five years. O'Toole is a contributor to the anthologies Interdisciplinary Essays on Environment and Culture, New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles, and The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love.

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