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Author:	Anthony Elliott
Title:	The Mourning Of John Lennon
Publisher:	University Of California Press
Country:	USA
Date:	17 Mar 1999
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music
ISBN-13:	9780520215498
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232 pages. Book dimensions: 15.88 cms x 1.91 cms x 23.5 cms.

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Loss & mourning loom over John Lennon's life & legacy. Since his tragic death in 1980, he has embodied our culture's feelings of loss; he has become an object of mourning, of fantasy, of desire. Lennon himself created an aesthetic vocabulary for dealing with loss, pain, & loneliness that is unparalleled in modern times. His personal crises reflect core dimensions of modern social experience, in particular transformations affecting sexuality, masculinity, identity, & fatherhood. In this provocative account, Elliott places Lennon's life & career in its social context, examining the ways the ex-Beatle has come to symbolize an entire culture's struggle to mourn. Elliott interweaves broad-ranging discussions of celebrity, pop music, politics, feminism, psychoanalysis,& postmodernism with in-depth analyses of Lennon's life and art.

Beginning with a brilliant reading of Albert Goldman's bestselling biography, he moves to the loneliness & pain of Lennon's childhood, developing a powerful analysis of songs such as Strawberry Fields Forever & I Am the Walrus. From Help to Mother to I'm Losing You, he contends that a consistent exploration of pain & loss in the wider emotional & political world is evident in the body of Lennon's works. Elliott explores the complex, contradictory role of love in Lennon's life, with a particular focus on the themes of guilt and grief, sexuality and desire. He gives careful attention to Lennon's personal relationships - from his marriage to Cynthia Powell to his extraordinary romance with Yoko Ono.

By exploring the ways we remember Lennon - from the endless repackaging of his music to the more serious reappraisals of his significance in contemporary culture - we come to see this modern icon, as well as ourselves, in a new and different light.

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