1. "Where You Once Belonged": Class, Race and Liverpool Roots of Lennon and McCartney’s Songs
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | 1. "Where You Once Belonged": Class, Race and Liverpool Roots of Lennon and McCartney’s Songs - The Beatles in Perspective |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | James McGrath; Leeds Metropolitan University; United Kingdom |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | music |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | The Beatles; music icons; popular music; 1960s; Liverpool music scene; music industry; recording industry; film music; popular culture; music peformance |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | While Lennon and McCartney’s class affiliations are ambiguous to degrees that should remain debatable, the depth and the detail in which working-class life defines their work have been overlooked, thus misrepresenting The Beatles’ cultural significance. As Collins (2012) critiques, initial New Left criticisms of The Beatles – almost exclusively in response to one composition, ‘Revolution’ (1968) – have recently been adapted by commentators eager to portray The Beatles as a culturally and politically conservative force. I argue that early Left-wing and recent Right-wing criticisms of The Beatles’ legacy are misleading, because both overlook Lennon and McCartney’s different relationships to working-class culture. I also emphasize an importantly related, even more marginalized aspect of The Beatles’ history: the significance of black musical and cultural influences from Liverpool. The article seeks to offer new interpretations of songs including ‘Norwegian Wood’, ‘A Day in the Life’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da’ and ‘Working Class Hero’ |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 25-Jul-2023 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/25026 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.25026 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Beatles in Perspective |
| 16. | Language | English=en | En |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Liverpool; United Kingdom; Global, 1960s; contemporary |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |