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Kenneth Womack, Ph.D., professor of English and popular music, and Joe Rapolla ’90 MBA, specialist professor and chair of the department of Music and Theatre Arts, recently published \u201cIntroducing the Beatles: Background and Resources<\/a>\u201d (Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIntroducing the Beatles\u201d is designed for teachers and students of the Beatles interested in placing their \u201cremarkable musical output within the context of their years as a working rock \u2018n\u2019 roll group.\u201d QR codes are embedded throughout the publication to play each track on Spotify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is divided into five sections, with the first section offering a biographical chronology tracing the bandmates\u2019 lives and recordings from 1940 to present day. Section two follows the evolution of the Beatles\u2019 standard UK studio albums and singles releases from 1963-1970, plus an anthology project in the 1990s. Section three addresses the terminology occasioned by the advanced study of the band in an effort to afford teachers and students alike a sense of the larger contours of their artistic accomplishments, while sections four and five provide a discography and a bibliography, and sources for further reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The publisher notes, \u201c\u2019Introducing the Beatles\u2019 will find a regular readership via course adoptions, while also enjoying a wide audience of general readers who take every opportunity to learn more about the band\u2019s exciting and, at times, moving story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Womack is a leading Beatles scholar, having published his research about the band with such vaunted presses as Oxford, Cambridge, and Cornell. His latest project, a much anticipated two-volume study under contract with HarperCollins, addresses the life and times of Beatles roadie Mal Evans. Womack’s work has been featured in the pages of Rolling Stone, while earning him opportunities to serve as an expert commentator for ABC’s \u201c20\/20\u201d and NBC’s \u201cAccess Hollywood.\u201d He also serves as the Music Culture critic for Salon and hosts the popular Everything Fab Four podcast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rapolla is a veteran music industry consultant, having partnered with the world’s leading entertainment, media, and sports brands, including Universal Studios, MTV, HBO, Apple, Sony, IPG, BMI, and CBGB. He built and headed the Integrated Consumer Marketing departments at both Universal Music and Warner Music Group, where he successfully introduced and created direct-to-consumer marketing\/CRM strategies, campaigns, and platforms. At Monmouth University, he has reimagined the music industry curriculum, providing students with innovative, hands-on activities, including the student-run record label, Blue Hawk Records, and internship opportunities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenneth Womack, Ph.D., professor of English and popular music, and Joe Rapolla ’90 MBA, specialist professor and chair of the department of Music and Theatre Arts, recently published \u201cIntroducing the Beatles: Background and Resources\u201d (Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., 2023). \u201cIntroducing the Beatles\u201d is designed for teachers and students of the Beatles interested in placing their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40802277343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,423],"tags":[3553],"person":[513,323],"audience":[],"school":[110,65,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802277331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","tag-grammy","person-jrapolla","person-kwomack","school-english","school-music-theatre-arts","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":{"id":40802277387,"rendered":"\"Cover","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/10\/Rapolla_Womack-beatles.jpg","width":3704,"height":3473}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802277331","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802277331"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802277331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802277381,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802277331\/revisions\/40802277381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802277343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802277331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802277331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802277331"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802277331"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802277331"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802277331"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802277331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}