{"title":"Magic Circles","authors":"Kit O’Toole","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190917852.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917852.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Despite technological change, two elements of the Beatles fan community remain stable: community and artistic expression. Fans want to communicate with fellow enthusiasts. In addition, fans want to contribute to that community, whether through fan fiction, fanzines, books, online discussion groups, YouTube channels, or podcasts. In the 1960s and 1970s, fans bonded primarily in person at record stores, concerts, and fan conventions. Desktop publishing and personal computers let fans design their own fanzines at lower cost. Then the internet changed how fans network and how they contribute to participatory culture. This chapter examines these trends and how fans today communicate with one another and ensure the Beatles’ legacy among younger generations. A survey of multigenerational fans and an interview with a video blogger further illustrate how fans connect today. Two forms of Henry Jenkins’s participatory culture will be applied to how technology has impacted Beatles fandom: affiliation and expression.","PeriodicalId":426415,"journal":{"name":"Fandom and The Beatles","volume":"70 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132335563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beatles Heritage Tourism in Liverpool","authors":"Michael Brocken","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190917852.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917852.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores the tension between the Beatles’ story and Liverpool, with imagery and imagination conjuring up compelling beliefs that command narratives of authority. Such heritage strategies have smacked a little of desperation, perhaps masking the changed relationship between surviving Beatles fragments in Liverpool and popular-music heritage tourism across the globe. The rhetoric of the Beatles, Liverpool, and “the ’60s, man” today represents an outdated, white, gendered, anglophone rock meta-narrative in what is now a multifaceted global popular-music (tourism) marketplace. Liverpool’s position as the authentic site for Beatles and Merseybeat tourism and a World Heritage Site has never been more precarious. How can the city continue to attract Beatles tourists as the ’60sslip away into the annals of popular-music historiography? An additional question is how the Beatles’ legacy might be explained to visitors with little knowledge of them as a global popular-music phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":426415,"journal":{"name":"Fandom and The Beatles","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129846885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Beatles: Today . . . and Tomorrow","authors":"K. Campbell","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190917852.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917852.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The Beatles played an important role in the lives of many young people in the second decade of the 21st century. Whether exposed to the Beatles through parents, grandparents, or popular culture, they had not experienced the Fab Four as part of some distant past but as part of their own childhood and growing up. Many colleges and universities now expose students to the Beatles through academic study, making the group an important part of these students’ experience. This chapter illustrates the ways these students have connected with the music of the Beatles and discovered how it can help them cope with and better understand their own lives. As they continue to pass along their love and knowledge of the group, the Beatles’ relevance and popularity will not decline anytime soon. Evidence from online listening and music subscription services reinforce the idea that the Beatles and their music will continue to live on.","PeriodicalId":426415,"journal":{"name":"Fandom and The Beatles","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126495614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}