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).
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 history, recording technology, media studies, and popular
culture.
*Leonardo Music Journal*
Anyone who is interested in an intense history of the Beatles, the
book The Beatles and McLuhan is an exciting, instructive and
valuable asset. Recommended.
*From Me to You*
You never heard the Beatles like this before. . . .In his
remarkable study—for it is just that—MacFarlane assesses the true
relevance of the music that the Beatles made within this period and
how the music of this band became a palimpsest for the theories of
Marshall McLuhan. . . .[The book] make[s] a great statement about
the advent of the digital era, the mapping of our own cultural
history and its preservation—thanks to hot and cool media in the
digital era.
*Jazz da Gama*
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