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In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary Cavern Club and the massive onslaught of Beatlemania itself. By mapping the group's development as an artistic fusion, Womack traces the Beatles' creative arc from their first, primitive recordings through Abbey Road and the twilight of their career. In order to communicate the nature and power of the band's remarkable achievement, Womack examines the Beatles' body of work as an evolving art object. He investigates the origins and creation of the group's compositions, as well as the songwriting and recording practices that brought them to fruition. Womack's analysis of the Beatles' albums transports readers on a journey through the Beatles' heyday as recording artists between 1962 and 1969, when the band enjoyed a staggering musical and lyrical leap that took them from their first album Please Please Me, which they recorded in the space of a single day, to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the White Album, and Abbey Road-albums that collectively required literally thousands of hours to produce. In addition to considering the band's increasing self-consciousness about the overall production, design, and presentation of their art, Womack explores the Beatles' albums as a collection of musical and lyrical impressions that finds them working towards a sense of aesthetic unity. In Long and Winding Roads, Womack reveals the ways in which the Beatles gave life to a musical synthesis that would change the world.

Table of Contents:
Preface Chapter 1: The End Chapter 2: The Beginning Chapter 3: A Cellarful of Noise Chapter 4: And the Band Begins to Play Chapter 5: Rock and Roll Music Chapter 6: The Biggest Showbiz Town Ever Chapter 7: Yesterday and Today Chapter 8: The End of the Road Chapter 9: The Act You've Known for All These Years Chapter 10: Roll Up for the Mystery Tour Chapter 11: You Say You Want a Revolution Chapter 12: Getting Back Chapter 13: The Dream Is Over Chapter 14: Long Live the Dream Acknowledgements Appendix A: Discography Appendix B: Terminology Notes Bibliography

About the Author :
Kenneth Womack is one of the world’s foremost writers and thinkers about the Beatles. He is Professor of English and Popular Music at Monmouth University, USA. He also serves as the Music Culture critic for Salon, as well as a contributor to a host of print and web outlets, including Slate, Billboard, Time, Variety, USA Today, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, The Independent, NBC News, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of The Beatles Encyclopedia (2014), Maximum Volume (2017), Sound Pictures (2018), Solid State (2019), John Lennon 1980 (2020), and Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans (2023). In October 2020, Rolling Stone magazine published a feature story outlining Womack’s groundbreaking research associated with Lennon’s life and work.

Review :
Mention in The Bookseller Mention in Memphis Flyer "Any music library strong in Beatles surveys and references will welcome Long and Winding Road: The Evolving Artistry of The Beatles, which takes quite a different approach than most biographical focuses.  The one maps the group's evolutionary trends from their first recordings to the height - and then fall - of their career.  The Beatles' body of songs - not their lives - are considered on an analysis which does include some biography, but doesn't make this the focal point.  The result is more well-rounded than most Beatles coverage with an emphasis on music over inspirational influences." —James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review, February 2008  "Good on recognizing precursors to Beatles' songs, Womack does a fine job of bringing out the group's accelerated aesthetic development." -CHOICE "Womack does a fine job of bringing out the group's accelerated aesthetic development." -Choice, 2008


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  • ISBN-13: 9780826417466
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 460 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0826417469
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jul 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Sub Title: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles


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