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Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History. By Devin McKinney. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. [xi, 420 p. IBSN 0-674-01202-X. $46 (hbk.); ISBN 0-674-01202-X. $16.95 (pbk.)] Illustrations, discography, index.
Lying at the heart of this provocative study of the Beatles is a familiar topic in popular-music scholarship: the relationship between artists and their audiences. Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History, however, is no mere reception history; nor is it plainly academic in its approach. Devin McKinney, self-consciously positioning himself within a long tradition of creative writers on the culture of rock and roll (think Greil ...