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A cultural geography of the Beatles; represented lanscapes as musical texts (Strawberry Fields, Abbey Road, and Penny Lane).


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A cultural geography Cultural geography is a sub-field within human geography. Cultural Geography is the study of spatial variations among cultural groups and the spatial functioning of society.  of the Beatles; represented lanscapes as musical texts (Strawberry Fields, Abbey Road Abbey Road may refer to:
  • Abbey Road (street), a street in London, England
  • Abbey Road (album), by The Beatles
  • Abbey Road Studios, a recording studio complex owned by the EMI company in London, England
  • The Abbey Road E.P.
, and Penny Lane).

Kruse, Robert J.

Edwin Mellen Pr.

2005

164 pages

$99.95

Hardcover

Studies in popular culture; v.3

ML421

Kruse (geography, West Liberty State College, West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures


Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop.
) links the Beatles as a phenomenon of popular culture with the cultural landscape. Drawing on post-structuralism, he explores how statements made by or about the musical group contributed to particular place- specific discourses, emphasizing the spatial manifestations of the discourses. He looks at geographies of the Beatles from 1957 to 1964; placing them in cultural discourses, London and Liverpool, and Strawberry Fields in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 City's Central Park.

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