A fascinating look at the history of the Beatles, from their formative years through the present day, as detailed in hundreds of entries chock-full of information never before shared with the public.
Alphabetical List of Entries, Guide to Related Topics, Preface, Acknowledgments, Chronology, Entries A–Z, Discography of the Beatles, Recommended Resources, Index,
Kenneth Womack is professor of English and integrative arts and associate dean for academic affairs at Penn State Altoona.
The entries are well-written and should be clearly understood by a
general reading audience. The sheer amount of information contained
between the covers is impressive and certainly helpful to anyone
interested in, or researching, Beatles-related information.
*ARBAonline*
Numerous Beatles books tell the group's story, or may focus on very
specific periods in their relatively short but complex history.
Now, all the major topics are included in one convenient place in
The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four, the latest work by
Beatles scholar Kenneth Womack. From A to Z (or Apple to Zapple),
Womack provides succinct yet thorough entries for topics from songs
to albums to significant people in the Beatles' story.
*Something Else Reviews*
This well-researched and accessible resource is suitable for public
and academic library music-reference and circulating
collections.
*Booklist*
This encyclopedia is crucial for any music library. Summing Up:
Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above;
general readers.
*Choice*
This compendium of facts about the Beatles will serve as a useful
resource for basic information about the band, its members, and the
people around them and their influence on popular music and
culture. There is no shortage of information on this subject, but
it is sometimes difficult to verify the authority of a given
source. For that reason, I recommend this book for inclusion in
general reference collections as much for its factual content as
for its bibliographic utility in recommending authoritative sources
for further investigation on this multi-faceted, and seemingly
endlessly revisited, topic.
*Reference Reviews*
Everything Fab Four has been placed at our fingertips. As such, the
content of these two volumes will simultaneously expedite our
searches for this or that detail while also sending us back to
Beatles books we have read or should read. It will enlarge
considerably our conception of what the Beatles accomplished, just
as it will strike us as practical, fun, and, most important of all,
indispensable. Certain it is that fans and scholars of the Beatles
will find themselves describing the feat that Kenneth Womack has
achieved in compiling The Beatles Encyclopedia in adjectives such
as these.
*Popular Music and Society*
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