Teaching the Beatles

Hugh Jenkins is a Professor of English at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He is the author of Feigned Commonwealths, a study of the country-house poem, and numerous articles on John Milton. A lifelong Beatles fan, he regularly teaches a course on the group at Union. Paul O. Jenkins is the University Librarian at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. He is the author of Richard Dyer-Bennet: The Last Minstrel, as well as numerous articles about folk music and librarianship. He has loved the Beatles ever since his father bought him Rubber Soul in 1965.

Introduction (Hugh Jenkins and Paul O. Jenkins) Interdisciplinary Approaches 1.I’m Looking Through You: Experiments in Learning and the Beatles (Gordon R. Thompson) 2.More Than Just Their Music (Paul O. Jenkins) 3.The Beatles Against Machiavelli: Is it Better to Be Loved or Feared? (Robert Hislope) 4.Getting Better All the Time: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Beatles Mythology (John McCombe) 5.Teaching Beatles Business (David Rezak) Traditional Approaches 6.Lennon-McCartney and the Art of Songwriting in Two Days: An Intensive Honors Primetime Workshop (Donna S. Parsons) 7.Unlocking the Mysteries of the Beatles’ Musical Magic (Mark Morton) Pedagogical Approaches 8.Building a Time Capsule: the Beatles and Library Technology. (Reed and Zaghloul) 9.Team Teaching the Beatles (Wes Davis) 10.Writing the Beatles (Hugh Jenkins) 11.Teaching the Beatles to Non-Traditional Students (John Keene) 12.Teaching the Beatles as an Online Course (Douglas Babb) Appendix: The Beatles: Will You Read My Book (Paul O. Jenkins)