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The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatlesâ
beloved friend, confidant, and roadie Malcolm Evans, the Beatlesâ
long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend, was an
invaluable member of the bandâs inner circle. A towering figure
in horn-rimmed glasses, Evans loomed large in the Beatlesâ story,
contributing at times as a performer and sometime lyricist, while
struggling mightily to protect his beloved âboys.â He was there
for the whole of the groupâs remarkable, unparalleled story: from
the Shea Stadium triumph through the creation of the timeless cover
art for Sgt. Pepperâs Lonely Hearts Club Band and the famous Let
It Be rooftop concert. Leaving a stable job as telecommunications
engineer to serve as road manager for this fledgling band, Mal was
the odd man out from the startâolder, married with children, and
without any music business experience. And yet he threw himself
headlong into their world, traveling across the globe and making
himself indispensable. In the years after the Beatlesâ
disbandment, Big Mal continued in their employ as each embarked
upon solo careers. By 1974, he was determined to make his name as a
songwriter and record producer, setting off for a new life in Los
Angeles, where he penned his memoirs. But in January 1976, on the
verge of sharing his book with the world, Evansâs story came to a
tragic end during a domestic standoff with the LAPD. For Beatles
devotes, Malâs life and untimely death have always been shrouded
in mystery. For decades, his diaries, manuscripts, and vast
collection of memorabilia was missing, seemingly lost
foreverâŠuntil now. Working with full access to Malâs
unpublished archives and having conducted hundreds of new
interviews, Beatlesâ scholar and author Kenneth Womack affords
readers with a full telling of Malâs unknown story at the heart
of the Beatlesâ legend. Lavishly illustrated with unseen photos
and ephemera from Malâs archives, Living the Beatlesâ Legend:
The Untold Story of Mal Evans is the missing puzzle piece in the
Fab Fourâs incredible story.
John Lennon, 1980: The Final Days in the Life of Beatle John tells
the story of the legendary musician's incredible last year. For
Lennon, 1980 had begun as a ceaseless shopping spree in which he
and wife Yoko Ono fell into the doldrums of purchasing blue-chip
real estate and indulging their every whim. But for John, that
pivotal year would climax in several moments of creative triumph as
he rediscovered his artistic self in dramatic fashion, only to be
cut down by an assassin's bullets on Monday, December 8th, 1980, in
the prime of a new life that was only just beginning to blossom.
George Martin - the man, the mind, the music. This is the story of
the legendary Beatles producer. The first of two volumes, MAXIMUM
VOLUME traces Martinâs early life, from an impoverished
childhood, through WWII, to becoming head of EMIâs Parlophone
Records. There, he made waves in British comedy and saved
Parlophone from ruin with records from the likes of Spike Milligan.
Then one day he discovered a scruffy beat band from Liverpool... As
this dramatic story unfolds, the book transports you into the
studio with Martin and the Beatles, exploring how his musical
genius shaped their incredible body of work and helped craft hit
after hit. In the process, Martin would define the modern concept
of a record producer.
SOUND PICTURES offers a powerful glimpse into the mind, the music,
and the man behind the sound of the Beatles. The second book of
two, SOUND PICTURES traces the story of George Martin and the
Beatles' incredible artistic trajectory after reaching the creative
heights of Rubber Soul. As the bandmates engage in brash
experimentation both inside and outside of the studio, Martin toils
along with manager Brian Epstein to consolidate the Beatles' fame
in the face of growing sociocultural pressures, including the
crisis associated with the `Beatles are more popular than Jesus'
scandal. Meanwhile, Martin struggles to make his way as an
independent producer in the highly competitive world of mid-1960s
rock 'n' roll. As Martin and the Beatles create one landmark album
after another, including such masterworks as Revolver, Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (The White Album),
and Abbey Road, the internal stakes and interpersonal challenges
become ever greater. During his post-Beatles years, Martin attempts
to discover new vistas of sound recording with a host of acts,
including Jeff Beck, America, Cheap Trick, Paul McCartney, and
Elton John. Eventually, all roads lead Martin back to the Beatles,
as the group seeks out new ways to memorialise their achievement
under the supervision of the man who came to be known as Sir
George. Now, more than 50 years later, Martin's singular stamp
remains on popular music as successive generations discover the
magic of the Beatles.
The Beatles are probably the most photographed band in history and
are the subject of numerous biographical studies, but a surprising
dearth of academic scholarship addresses the Fab Four. New Critical
Perspectives on the Beatles offers a collection of original,
previously unpublished essays that explore 'new' aspects of the
Beatles. The interdisciplinary collection situates the band in its
historical moment of the 1960s, but argues for artistic innovation
and cultural ingenuity that account for the Beatles' lasting
popularity today. Along with theoretical approaches that bridge the
study of music with perspectives from non-music disciplines, the
texts under investigation make this collection 'new' in terms of
Beatles' scholarship. Contributors frequently address
under-examined Beatles texts or present critical perspectives on
familiar works to produce new insight about the Beatles and their
multi-generational audiences.
Acclaimed Beatles historian Kenneth Womack offers the most
definitive account yet of the writing, recording, mixing, and
reception of Abbey Road. In February 1969, the Beatles began
working on what became their final album together. Abbey Road
introduced a number of new techniques and technologies to the
Beatles' sound, and included "Come Together," "Something," and
"Here Comes the Sun," which all emerged as classics. Womack's
colorful retelling of how this landmark album was written and
recorded is a treat for fans of the Beatles. Solid State takes
readers back to 1969 and into EMI's Abbey Road Studio, which
boasted an advanced solid state transistor mixing desk. Womack
focuses on the dynamics between John, Paul, George, Ringo, and
producer George Martin and his team of engineers, who set aside
(for the most part) the tensions and conflicts that had arisen on
previous albums to create a work with an innovative (and, among
some fans and critics, controversial) studio-bound sound that
prominently included the new Moog synthesizer, among other
novelties. As Womack shows, Abbey Road was the culmination of the
instrumental skills, recording equipment, and artistic vision that
the band and George Martin had developed since their early days in
the same studio seven years earlier. A testament to the group's
creativity and their producer's ingenuity, Solid State is required
reading for all fans of the Beatles and the history of rock 'n'
roll.
2017 Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research
2016 Pete Delohery Award for Best Sports Book from Shelf Unbound
When it opened in 1965, the Houston Astrodome, nicknamed the Eighth
Wonder of the World, captured the attention of an entire nation,
bringing pride to the city and enhancing its reputation nationwide.
It was a Texas-sized vision of the future, an unthinkable feat of
engineering with premium luxury suites, theater-style seating, and
the first animated scoreboard. Yet there were memorable problems
such as outfielders' inability to see fly balls and failed attempts
to grow natural grass-which ultimately led to the development of
AstroTurf. The Astrodome nonetheless changed the way people viewed
sports, putting casual fans at the forefront of a user-experience
approach that soon became the standard in all American sports. The
Eighth Wonder of the World tears back the facade and details the
Astrodome's role in transforming Houston as a city while also
chronicling the building's storied fifty years in existence and the
ongoing debate about its preservation.
There is little question about the incredible power of Bruce
Springsteen's work as a particularly transformative art, as a
lyrical and musical fusion that never shies away from sifting
through the rubble of human conflict. As Rolling Stone magazine's
Parke Puterbaugh observes, Springsteen 'is a peerless songwriter
and consummate artist whose every painstakingly crafted album
serves as an impassioned and literate pulse taking of a
generation's fortunes. He is the foremost live performer in the
history of rock and roll, a self-described prisoner of the music he
loves, for whom every show is played as if it might be his last.'
In recent decades, Puterbaugh adds, 'Springsteen's music developed
a conscience that didn't ignore the darkening of the runaway
American Dream as the country greedily blundered its way through
the 1980s' and into the sociocultural detritus of a new century
paralysed by isolation and uncertainty. Bruce Springsteen, Cultural
Studies, and the Runaway American Dream reflects the significant
critical interest in understanding Springsteen's resounding impact
upon the ways in which we think and feel about politics, religion,
gender, and the pursuit of the American Dream. By assembling a host
of essays that engage in interdisciplinary commentary regarding one
of Western culture's most enduring artistic and socially
radicalizing phenomena, this book offers a cohesive, intellectual,
and often entertaining introduction to the many ways in which
Springsteen continues to impact our lives by challenging our minds
through his lyrics and music.
In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles,
Revised Edition, 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 this revised edition,
Womack addresses new insights in Beatles-related scholarship since
the original publication of Long and Winding Roads, along with
hundreds of the group's outtakes released in the intervening years.
The updated edition also affords attention to the Beatles' musical
debt to Rhythm and Blues, as well as to key recent discoveries that
vastly shift our understanding of formative events in the band's
timeless story.
The World Trade Center Through Time addresses the fascinating
architectural and cultural history behind the evolution and
construction of the Twin Towers. Adorned with period illustrations,
the book takes readers on the remarkable journey that brought the
Twin Towers to life in Lower Manhattan, from the early
twentieth-century world of New York City's Radio Row through the
towers' emergence as the city's most visible iconography. The World
Trade Center Through Time traces the larger-than-life personalities
who shared in the complex's vision and construction, including
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, David Rockefeller, Mayor John Lindsay,
Port Authority Director Austin J. Tobin, and celebrated architect
Minoru Yamasaki. From the Twin Towers' heyday as Lower Manhattan's
commercial and social hub through its indelible linkage with
terrorism in the new century, The World Trade Center Through Time
captures the Twin Towers' enduring place as an American touchstone.
In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles,
Revised Edition, 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 this revised edition,
Womack addresses new insights in Beatles-related scholarship since
the original publication of Long and Winding Roads, along with
hundreds of the group's outtakes released in the intervening years.
The updated edition also affords attention to the Beatles' musical
debt to Rhythm and Blues, as well as to key recent discoveries that
vastly shift our understanding of formative events in the band's
timeless story.
Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides
readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of
subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing
clear cultural contexts for the works under review-including such
canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories
featuring Sherlock Holmes-the critics in this anthology offer
groundbreaking studies of subversion as a literary motif. For some
late nineteenth-century British novelists, subversion was a central
aspect of their writerly existence. Although-or perhaps
because-most Victorian authors composed their works for a general
and mixed audience, many writers employed strategies designed to
subvert genteel expectations. In addition to using coded and
oblique subject matter, such figures also hid their transgressive
material "in plain sight." While some writers sought to critique,
and even destabilize, their society, others juxtaposed subversive
themes and aesthetics negatively with communal norms in hopes of
quashing progressive agendas.
Victorian Literary Cultures: Studies in Textual Subversion provides
readers with close textual analyses regarding the role of
subversive acts or tendencies in Victorian literature. By drawing
clear cultural contexts for the works under review-including such
canonical texts as Dracula, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, and stories
featuring Sherlock Holmes-the critics in this anthology offer
groundbreaking studies of subversion as a literary motif. For some
late nineteenth-century British novelists, subversion was a central
aspect of their writerly existence. Although-or perhaps
because-most Victorian authors composed their works for a general
and mixed audience, many writers employed strategies designed to
subvert genteel expectations. In addition to using coded and
oblique subject matter, such figures also hid their transgressive
material "in plain sight." While some writers sought to critique,
and even destabilize, their society, others juxtaposed subversive
themes and aesthetics negatively with communal norms in hopes of
quashing progressive agendas.
On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb exploded just outside of
Oklahoma City's Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. Within
a matter of hours, the FBI launched the largest manhunt in U.S.
history, identifying the suspects as Timothy James McVeigh and John
Doe No. 2, a stocky twentysomething with a distinctive tattoo on
his left arm. Eventually the FBI retracted the elusive mystery man
as a bombing suspect altogether, proclaiming that McVeigh had acted
alone and that John Doe No. 2 was the by-product of unreliable
eyewitness testimony in the wake of the attack. Womack recreates
the events that led up to this fateful day from the perspective of
John Doe No. 2--or JD, as he is referred to in the book. With his
ironic and curiously detached persona, JD narrates--from a
second-person point of view--his secret life with McVeigh, Terry
Nichols, and others in America's militia culture as McVeigh and JD
crisscross the Midwest in McVeigh's beloved Chevy Geo Spectrum. "
John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel "is the tragicomic account
of McVeigh's last desperate months of freedom, as he prepared to
unleash one ofthe deadliest acts of domestic terrorism in the
nation's history. Womack's novel traces one man's downward spiral
toward the act of evil that will brand his name in infamy and
another's desperate hope to save his friend's soul before it's too
late.
There's a strong interest in reading for pleasure or
self-improvement in America, as shown by the popularity of "Harry
Potter," and book clubs, including Oprah Winfrey's. Although recent
government reports show a decline in recreational reading, the same
reports show a strong correlation between interest in reading and
academic acheivement. This set provides a snapshot of the current
state of popular American literature, including various types and
genres. The volume presents alphabetically arranged entries on more
than 70 diverse literary categories, such as cyberpunk, fantasy
literature, flash fiction, GLBTQ literature, graphic novels, manga
and anime, and zines. Each entry is written by an expert
contributor and provides a definition of the genre, an overview of
its history, a look at trends and themes, a discussion of how the
literary form engages contemporary issues, a review of the genre's
reception, a discussion of authors and works, and suggestions for
further reading. Sidebars provide fascinating details, and the set
closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Reading in America for pleasure and knowledge continues to be
popular, even while other media compete for attention. While
students continue to read many of the standard classics, new genres
have emerged. These have captured the attention of general readers
and are also playing a critical role in the language arts
classroom. This book maps the state of popular literature and
reading in America today, including the growth of new genres, such
as cyberpunk, zines, flash fiction, GLBTQ literature, and other
topics.
Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a
definition of the genre, an overview of its history, a look at
trends and themes, a discussion of how the literary form engages
contemporary issues, a review of the genre's critical reception, a
discussion of authors and works, and suggestions for further
reading. Sidebars provide fascinating details, and the set closes
with a selected, general bibliography. Students will find this book
a valuable guide to what they're reading today and will appreciate
its illumination of popular culture and contemporary social
issues.
Divided into four descriptive sections--"Theory and the Ethics
of Literary Text," "Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race
and Power," "Making Darkness Visible: The Ethical Implications of
Narrative as Witness," and "Ways of Seeing: The Diversity of
Applied Ethical Criticism"--this unprecedented collection of essays
traces the interpretive, pedagogic, and theoretical concerns
inherent in the study of literature, ethics, and modes of
criticism. Wayne C. Booth's "Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be
Simple," J. Hillis Miller's "How to Be 'in Tune with the Right' in
The Golden Bowl," Susan Gubar's "Poets of Testimony," and Martha C.
Nussbaum's "Exactly and Responsibly: A Defense of Ethical
Criticism" are among the fifteen essays included. Bringing together
ethical criticism's most important theorists, Mapping the Ethical
Turn is a cohesive introduction to a reading paradigm that
continues to influence the ways in which we think and feel about
the stories that mark our lives.
Divided into four descriptive sections--"Theory and the Ethics
of Literary Text," "Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race
and Power," "Making Darkness Visible: The Ethical Implications of
Narrative as Witness," and "Ways of Seeing: The Diversity of
Applied Ethical Criticism"--this unprecedented collection of essays
traces the interpretive, pedagogic, and theoretical concerns
inherent in the study of literature, ethics, and modes of
criticism. Wayne C. Booth's "Why Ethical Criticism Can Never Be
Simple," J. Hillis Miller's "How to Be 'in Tune with the Right' in
The Golden Bowl," Susan Gubar's "Poets of Testimony," and Martha C.
Nussbaum's "Exactly and Responsibly: A Defense of Ethical
Criticism" are among the fifteen essays included. Bringing together
ethical criticism's most important theorists, Mapping the Ethical
Turn is a cohesive introduction to a reading paradigm that
continues to influence the ways in which we think and feel about
the stories that mark our lives.
2017 Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research
2016 Pete Delohery Award for Best Sports Book from Shelf Unbound
When it opened in 1965, the Houston Astrodome, nicknamed the Eighth
Wonder of the World, captured the attention of an entire nation,
bringing pride to the city and enhancing its reputation nationwide.
It was a Texas-sized vision of the future, an unthinkable feat of
engineering with premium luxury suites, theater-style seating, and
the first animated scoreboard. Yet there were memorable problems
such as outfielders' inability to see fly balls and failed attempts
to grow natural grass-which ultimately led to the development of
AstroTurf. The Astrodome nonetheless changed the way people viewed
sports, putting casual fans at the forefront of a user-experience
approach that soon became the standard in all American sports. The
Eighth Wonder of the World tears back the facade and details the
Astrodome's role in transforming Houston as a city while also
chronicling the building's storied fifty years in existence and the
ongoing debate about its preservation.
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