Book contents
- The Beatles in Context
- Composers In Context
- The Beatles in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Beatle People and Beatle Places
- Part II The Beatles in Performance
- Part III The Beatles on TV, Film, and the Internet
- Chapter 10 From Juke Box Jury to The Ed Sullivan Show: Radio and TV – the Beatles’ “Star-Making Machinery”
- Chapter 11 Projecting the Visuality of the Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night and Help!
- Chapter 12 Beatletoons: Moxie, Music, and the Media
- Chapter 13 Documentary, Rockumentary: Let It Be and the Rooftop Concert
- Chapter 14 The Beatles Redux: The Anthology Series and the Video Age
- Chapter 15 Pop Goes the Internet
- Part IV The Beatles’ Sound
- Part V The Beatles as Sociocultural and Political Touchstones
- Part VI The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 14 - The Beatles Redux: The Anthology Series and the Video Age
from Part III - The Beatles on TV, Film, and the Internet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2020
- The Beatles in Context
- Composers In Context
- The Beatles in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Part I Beatle People and Beatle Places
- Part II The Beatles in Performance
- Part III The Beatles on TV, Film, and the Internet
- Chapter 10 From Juke Box Jury to The Ed Sullivan Show: Radio and TV – the Beatles’ “Star-Making Machinery”
- Chapter 11 Projecting the Visuality of the Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night and Help!
- Chapter 12 Beatletoons: Moxie, Music, and the Media
- Chapter 13 Documentary, Rockumentary: Let It Be and the Rooftop Concert
- Chapter 14 The Beatles Redux: The Anthology Series and the Video Age
- Chapter 15 Pop Goes the Internet
- Part IV The Beatles’ Sound
- Part V The Beatles as Sociocultural and Political Touchstones
- Part VI The Beatles’ Critical Reception and Cultural Legacy
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
By design and coincidence, the Beatles exploited the reach of television in the USA. They used the medium to introduce themselves to American audiences and subsequently to renew that connection over the decades, individually and on behalf of the group. Television allowed the Beatles to reach beyond their ardent music fan base to become an accepted part of the US national conversation and American popular culture. They successfully navigated the world of US variety and talk shows in the 1960s and 1970s, leveraged music video programs in the 1980s and 1990s, and found twenty-first century online opportunities, epitomized by the embrace of Carpool Karaoke (with James Corden in 2018) which went from broadcast network television to viral video.
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- The Beatles in Context , pp. 150 - 157Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020