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    Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
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    Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World

    By Candy Leonard

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    “A must-have for Beatles fans looking for new insight . . . Leonard uncovers fresh ideas [that] six decades of Beatles literature passed over” (The Spectrum).
     
    Part generational memoir and part cultural history of the sixties, Beatleness is the first book to tell the story of the Beatles and their impact on America from the fans’ perspective.
    When the Beatles arrived in the United States on February 7, 1964, they immediately became a constant, compelling presence in fans’ lives. For the next six years, the band presented a nonstop deluge of steadily evolving sounds, ideas, and images that transformed the childhood and adolescence of millions of baby boomers and nurtured a relationship unique in history. Exploring that relationship against the backdrop of the sexual revolution, political assassinations, the Vietnam War, and other events, and incorporating hundreds of hours of in-depth fan interviews, Beatleness examines critically the often-heard assertion that the Beatles “changed everything”—and shows how, through the interplay between the group, the fans, and the culture, that change came about.
     
    “This fun and insightful study of pop music fandom is recommended both to older Beatlemaniacs who were there and to younger fans who want to know what it was like to be a part of the phenomenon.” —Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 5, 2016
    ISBN9781628727692
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    Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
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    Candy Leonard

    Candy Leonard is a sociologist, first-generation Beatles fan, and Beatles scholar. She has spent years studying the effects of popular culture on human development, gender relations, and family life and is a qualitative research consultant to the health-care and entertainment industries, with a focus on baby boomer issues. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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