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The Beatles and McLuhan: Understanding the Electric Age
Thomas Macfarlane
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Description for The Beatles and McLuhan: Understanding the Electric Age
Hardcover. Num Pages: 194 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; AVX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 32. Weight in Grams: 456.
In the 1960s, The Beatles would address like no other musical act a radical shift in the cultural mindset of the late twentieth century. Through tools of “electric technology,” this shift encompassed the decline of visual modes of perception and the emergence of a “way-of-knowing” based increasingly on sound. In this respect, the musical works of The Beatles would come to resonate with and ultimately reflect Marshall McLuhan’s ideas on the transition into a culture of “all-at-once-ness”: a simultaneous world in which immersion in vibrant global community increasingly trumps the fixed viewpoint of the individual. By engaging with recording ... Read more
In the 1960s, The Beatles would address like no other musical act a radical shift in the cultural mindset of the late twentieth century. Through tools of “electric technology,” this shift encompassed the decline of visual modes of perception and the emergence of a “way-of-knowing” based increasingly on sound. In this respect, the musical works of The Beatles would come to resonate with and ultimately reflect Marshall McLuhan’s ideas on the transition into a culture of “all-at-once-ness”: a simultaneous world in which immersion in vibrant global community increasingly trumps the fixed viewpoint of the individual. By engaging with recording ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810884328
SKU
V9780810884328
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About Thomas Macfarlane
Thomas MacFarlane teaches courses in Music Theory and Composition at New York University while also working as a composer and a writer. He is author of The Beatles' Abbey Road Medley: Extended Forms in Popular Music (Scarecrow Press).
Reviews for The Beatles and McLuhan: Understanding the Electric Age
The Beatles and McLuhan: Understanding the Electric Age includes the first ever-complete transcription of the filmed conversation between John Lennon and Marshall McLuhan, as well as an interview with Michael McLuhan regarding his father’s legacy and that of The Beatles. The Beatles and McLuhan: Understanding the Electric Age will be of interest to scholars and students interested in music, music ... Read more