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Artificial Paradise
The Dark Side of the Beatles' Utopian Dream
 Kevin Courrier

0-313-34586-4/978-0-313-34586-9

Description
Courrier examines how some of the darker elements of America's cultural revolution were provoked by, and filtered through, the Beatles's Utopian dreams.

Reviews:
-"Courrier has provided a thoughtful alternative to the fawning biographies of the '60s and '70s, and the myth-shattering exposes of more recent years... A dandy read!" —Green Man Review
-"Beatles collectors and music libraries must have this different approach linking the Beatles phenomenon to social change." —Midwest Book Review
-"The author takes the reader on a tour of the Beatles musical catalogue, almost song-by-song, simultaneously setting the music in the context of the career and lives of the Liverpool foursome and the wider cultural milieu, all while advancing the central conceit of the book, which is that the Beatles' music advanced utopian hope that as often as not turned out to be fleeting and illusionary." —Reference & Research Book News
About the Author
KEVIN COURRIER is a writer/broadcaster and film critic at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He worked for eight years as co-host of the interview program On the Arts for CJRT-FM in Toronto, and also contributed movie reviews to Boxoffice Magazine in Los Angeles until 2007. He has written about film and popular culture for The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Sta. Courrier is the author of four other published books, Law & Order: The Unofficial Companion, with Susan Green (1997), which is now in its second edition, Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Zappa (2002), which won the Finalist Prize for Best Biography at the 2003 Independent Publisher's Awards, Randy Newman's American Dreams, which also won Finalist Prize for Best Biography at the 2006 Independent Publisher's Awards, and Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica (2007). Courrier teaches part-time film courses through the LIFE Institute at Ryerson University in Toronto.
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