Walter Everett (musicologist)
Walter Everett is a
music theorist specializing in popular music who teaches at the University of Michigan
.
His books include The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology (1999,
Cambridge Companions to Music
series.
Gary Burns, editor of the journal Popular Music and Society, describes Everett's Beatles as Musicians volumes as a "monumental two-book set" that has furthered the field of musicological study begun in 1973 by Wilfrid Mellers.[2] According to Michael Frontani, author of The Beatles: Image and the Media, the books represent a "landmark of scholarship" about the band's music.[3]
Everett received the Kjell Meling Award for Distinction in the Arts and Humanities.[1]
Education
- BS, Gettysburg College music education, piano concentration
- MM, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Musicmusic theory
- PhD, University of Michigan, music theory
Works
- Expression in Pop-Rock Music : A Collection of Critical and Analytical Essays (as editor) (1999)
- The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology (1999)
- The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul (2001)
- The Foundations of Rock: From "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (2009)
- What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time (with Tim Riley) (2019)
Sources
- ^ a b "The 2007/2008 Kjell Meling Award", Penn State Altoona.
- ISBN 978-0-521-68976-2.
- ISBN 978-1-57806-966-8.
External links
- "Walter T. Everett: Professor of Music Theory", Music.UMich.edu.
