AKOM welcomes Dr. Christine Feldman-Barrett, author of A Women’s History of the Beatles.
Phoebe, Daphne and Christine discuss: how the Beatles have inspired generations of women, effective labor, fandom, diversity in Beatles scholarship, Living History v. critical distance, and being (v. being WITH the Beatles).
SOURCES
Ehrenreich, Barbara, Elizabeth Hess, and Gloria Jacobs. "Beatlemania: Girls Just Want to Have Fun." In The Adoring Audience: Fan Culture and Popular Media, edited by Lisa A. Lewis, 84-106. 1992. Reprint, New York: Routledge, 2001.
Whiteley, Sheila. Space Between the Notes: Rock and the Counter-Culture. London: Routledge, 1992.
Collins, Marcus. "We Can Work it Out: Popular and Academic Writing on the Beatles." Popular Music History 9, no. 1 (2014): 79-101.
http://www.meetthebeatlesforreal.com
Mary Ann Seighart. “The Authority Gap: Why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it.” Doubleday, July 1, 2021
Candy Leonard. “Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World”
Arcade; Reprint edition (July 5, 2016)
PLAYLIST
She Said She Said THE BEATLES (1966)
I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party THE BEATLES (1964)
Drive My CarTHE BEATLES (1965)
Rain THE BEATLES (1965)
She’s a Woman THE BEATLES (1965)
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Strange Bedfellows: Ep 2 Sticky Situations w/Joe Hagan
Strange Bedfellows: Ep1 It’s Contentious
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AKOM Mailbag: Tumblr Edition 1/2
Who’s the Boss? The Fluidity of Leadership w/in the Lennon/McCartney Dyad
Queering the Beatles: AKOM Talks w/ Caleb Nichols
A Mistake in Many Ways: Ep5B I Want to Give Him That Divorce
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A Mistake in Many Ways: Ep4 That Makes Two of Us
A Mistake in Many Ways: Ep3 Probably a Rebirth
A Mistake in Many Ways: Ep2 The Beatles Thing is Over
A Mistake in Many Ways: Ep1 I Want a Divorce
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