02092 a2200313 4500 1317012917 20250317111642.0 250312042016GB eng 9781317012917 Taylor & Francis GBP 42.99 BB 01 eng AVLP thema GL thema 6PB bisac 6RF bisac AVGP bic GL bic MUS035000 bisac ART059000 bisac MUS000000 bisac 782.421660922 bisac Michael Brocken Twenty-First-Century Legacy of the Beatles Liverpool and Popular Music Heritage Tourism 1 Oxford Routledge 20160303 244 p It has taken Liverpool almost half a century to come to terms with the musical, cultural and now economic legacy of the Beatles and popular music. At times the group was negatively associated with sex and drugs images surrounding rock music: deemed unacceptable by the city fathers, and unworthy of their support. Liverpudlian musicians believe that the musical legacy of the Beatles can be a burden, especially when the British music industry continues to brand the latest (white) male group to emerge from Liverpool as ’the next Beatles’. Furthermore, Liverpudlians of perhaps differing ethnicities find images of ’four white boys with guitars and drums’ not only problematic in a ’musical roots’ sense, but for them culturally devoid of meaning and musically generic. The musical and cultural legacy of the Beatles remains complex. In a post-industrial setting in which both popular and traditional heritage tourism have emerged as providers of regular employment on Merseyside, major players in what might be described as a Beatles music tourism industry have constructed new interpretations of the past and placed these in such an order as to re-confirm, re-create and re-work the city as a symbolic place that both authentically and contextually represents the Beatles. 7681 7681