KW
Kenneth Womack
Categories:
- British and Irish Literature,
- Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature,
- Ethics and Moral Philosophy,
- Literary Studies - Other,
- Literary Theory,
- Literature and Philosophy,
- Music and Sound Studies - Other,
- Music Biographies,
- North American and Caribbean Literature,
- Popular Music,
- Reception Studies,
- Reference,
- Reference,
- Songwriting and Recording
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Biography
Kenneth Womack is one of the world’s foremost writers and thinkers about the Beatles. He is Professor of English and Popular Music at Monmouth University, USA. He also serves as the Music Culture critic for Salon, as well as a contributor to a host of print and web outlets, including Slate, Billboard, Time, Variety, USA Today, The Guardian, Smithsonian Magazine, The Independent, NBC News, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of The Beatles Encyclopedia (2014), Maximum Volume (2017), Sound Pictures (2018), Solid State (2019), John Lennon 1980 (2020), and Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans (2023). In October 2020, Rolling Stone magazine published a feature story outlining Womack’s groundbreaking research associated with Lennon’s life and work.