Not My Lifeblood

Garner, Ross

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“…Auto-ethnographic approaches are useful when studying fandom as they allow us to explore individual fan experiences (Sandvoss 2005), noting our own involvement and analysing it in a wider context of practice. However, as auto-ethnography focuses on an analysis of the self, there are objections to its subjective limitations (Garner 2018). Yet it is a worthwhile method, as by exploring our own fandom and the practices we undertake as fans, we can develop insights into wider fan identities (Hills 2002).…”

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‘Reatlemania’: new fan opportunities through Paul McCartney’s solo activities between 2018 and 2022

Easton

2023

Journal of Beatles Studies

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This article considers the re-emergence of Beatles fandom, here labelled ‘Reatlemania’, in the past five years, galvanized in particular through Paul McCartney’s solo material and promotional events. Since their dissolution in 1970, a number of significant media campaigns have occurred that have invigorated a posthumous market and interest in the Beatles. These include those focused on the CD releases of original vinyl material in the 1980s and The Beatles Anthology TV series, book and compilations in the 1990s. Most recently, McCartney’s activities and promotional events between 2018 and 2022 have been key in creating a resurgence in popularity. McCartney’s ongoing career continues to be linked with the Beatles’ legacy he helped create and has continued to curate. This legacy offers newer generations novel ways to access the group and be a part of twenty-first-century Beatles fan activity. This article argues that through McCartney’s active role in particular, Beatles fans are given opportunities for intimate encounters and to emulate the experiences of their first-generation antecedents during 1960s Beatlemania. This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0 .

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‘Reatlemania’: new fan opportunities through Paul McCartney’s solo activities between 2018 and 2022

Easton

2023

Journal of Beatles Studies

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“…I am also aware of Booth's criticism of autoethnography as potentially static and limiting, "constrained by a particular time and space, the temporal and spatial coordinates in which the researcher has undertaken the research" (Booth 2015, p. 107). In response to this, I have chosen not to focus my work on my present experiences as a fan and a bibliophile, but to harness Garner's (2018) longitudinal perspective by engaging in Monaco's (2010) 'memory work'. Far from limiting myself to a 'moment in time', my account begins in early childhood and works towards the present day.…”

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Fanfiction, Self-Publishing, and the Materiality of the Book: A Fan Writer’s Autoethnography

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2022

Humanities

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This interdisciplinary paper presents an autoethnography of an author who self-publishes her own fanfiction via print-on-demand (POD) services. It reflects upon the subject of fan writer as self-publisher, touching upon shifting notions of authorship, the format of the book, and literary practice, with implications for both fan studies and Library and Information Science (LIS). While its findings cannot be generalised to the wider fan community, the paper posits five reasons for this practice: (1) the desire to publish a work that is technically, if not necessarily creatively, unpublishable (due to copyright laws); (2) the physical presence of the book bestows ‘thingness’, physical legitimacy, and the power of traditional notions of authorship to one’s work; (3) the materiality of the book and the pleasure afforded by its physical, tactile, and haptic qualities; (4) books can be collectible (fan) items; (5) self-published books can act as signifiers both of the self-as-author and one’s creative journey. The paper recommends further study be conducted on a wider scale, engaging other self-publishing fanfiction authors in their own practice to test the conclusions presented here.

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Raising My Voice: Japanese Visual Kei and Musical (Self-)discovery

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2024

Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity

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Not My Lifeblood

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

‘Reatlemania’: new fan opportunities through Paul McCartney’s solo activities between 2018 and 2022

‘Reatlemania’: new fan opportunities through Paul McCartney’s solo activities between 2018 and 2022

Fanfiction, Self-Publishing, and the Materiality of the Book: A Fan Writer’s Autoethnography

Raising My Voice: Japanese Visual Kei and Musical (Self-)discovery

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