{"id":40802216279,"date":"2017-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/dean-womack-on-the-beatles-and-religion\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T21:40:03","slug":"dean-womack-on-the-beatles-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/dean-womack-on-the-beatles-and-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Womack on The Beatles and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aligncenter keepwidth\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/08\/Womackon20Radio.jpg?n=4686\" alt=\"Woman on Radio\" title=\"Woman on Radio\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Womack, Dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University, where he also serves as Professor of English, was a guest on the Common Threads radio show on WGVU, a public radio station from Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>A world-renowned authority on the Beatles, Dean Womack was interviewed to talk about the Beatles and religion, and discuss his many books about the Beatles and their cultural influence.<\/p>\n<p>His latest book project involves a two-volume, full-length biography devoted to famed Beatles producer Sir George Martin. His other Beatles-related books include  Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles (2007) and The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles (2009), which was named as The Independent\u2019s \u201cMusic Book of the Year.\u201d In 2014, Dean Womack published The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four. Ken\u2019s books about the Beatles are included in the permanent collection of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u2019s Library and Archives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter keepwidth\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wgvunews.org\/post\/kenneth-womack\" class=\"btn\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Interview: Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"aligncenter keepwidth\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wgvu.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net\/post\/kenneth-womack-part-ii\" class=\"btn\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Interview: Part 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Womack, Dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Monmouth University, where he also serves as Professor of English, was a guest on the Common Threads radio show on WGVU, a public radio station from Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 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