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Kenneth Womack, Ph.D., professor of English and popular music, interviews American filmmaker Ken Burns on the first episode of the fourth season of his \u201cEverything Fab Four\u201d podcast<\/a>, which debuts Sept. 13.  Renowned for his documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle American history and culture, such as “The Civil War,” “Baseball,” “Jazz,” and “Country Music,” Burns has earned two Academy Award nominations and won several Emmy Awards, among other honors. His latest documentary, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” premieres this month and was produced with longtime collaborators Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But before that, Burns worked at a record store where the best-selling album of his tenure was \u201cAbbey Road.\u201d He still thinks about the Beatles every day. In this conversation with Womack, Burns discusses what his creative process shares with the Beatles\u2019 and reveals the secret ingredient that he believes has made the band\u2019s catalog so timeless. And he makes the case that a significant portion of the top-10 quintessential Beatles\u2019 songs aren\u2019t written by Paul or John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Womack is the author or editor of more than 35 books, including \u201cFandom and the Beatles: The Act You\u2019ve Known for All These Years\u201d (2021), \u201cJohn Lennon, 1980: The Last Days in the Life\u201d (2020), “Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles\u201d (2019), \u201cThe Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four\u201d (2014), \u201cLong and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles\u201d (2007), the \u201cCambridge Companion to the Beatles\u201d (2009), and a multivolume study devoted to the life and work of Beatles producer George Martin. Womack is also a guest author at \u201cSlate,\u201d \u201cBillboard,\u201d \u201cVariety,\u201d NBC News, \u201cSmithsonian Magazine,\u201d \u201cTime,\u201d and \u201cUSA Today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenneth Womack, Ph.D., professor of English and popular music, interviews American filmmaker Ken Burns on the first episode of the fourth season of his \u201cEverything Fab Four\u201d podcast, which debuts Sept. 13.  Renowned for his documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle American history and culture, such as “The Civil War,” “Baseball,” “Jazz,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":40802267756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[],"person":[323],"audience":[],"school":[110,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802267738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-perspectives","person-kwomack","school-english","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":{"id":40802267756,"rendered":"\"Stylized","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/FabFourPodcast.jpg","width":3200,"height":3200}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802267738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802267738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802267738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802267762,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802267738\/revisions\/40802267762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802267756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802267738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802267738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802267738"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802267738"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802267738"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802267738"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802267738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}