From GENIUS COMPOSER to POP LIGHTWEIGHT: How the 1970s Rock Press Rebranded Paul McCartney
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From GENIUS COMPOSER to POP LIGHTWEIGHT: How the 1970s Rock Press Rebranded Paul McCartney

E 2022-04-18
Dr. Allison Bumsted joins Phoebe and Daphne to discuss how rock journalism in the 1970s re-shaped Paul McCartney’s critical reputation for the next three decades (and beyond).  Also discussed in this episode: authenticity, gatekeeping, rock aesthetics and rhetoric, hyper-masculinity and the inherent inclusivity of pop.   SOURCES Paul McCartney interviewed on Radio Luxembourg May 12, 1973Something About the Beatles, “Critiquing the Critics” Episodes 176a and 176bA Women’s History of the Beatles, Christine Feldman-Barrett (2021)The Beatles and the Historian...
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