"Yeah yeah yeah: The sixties screamscape of Beatlemania" Nicolette Rohr
da Lena Stöckl
1. versions of femininities
1.1. "ladylike" vs. “unladylike”
1.2. highten feminity post world war
1.3. challenged ideas about public behaviour
1.3.1. display of emotion in all its chaos
1.4. chanllanging ideas about sex/ sexuality
1.5. girlish democracy
1.6. unruly women
1.7. teenyboppers/ groupies
2. fandom
2.1. radical in force and scale
2.2. Beatlemania = gendered term --> female fans
2.3. personal intensity
2.4. fandom as a collective force
2.5. --> historical development
2.6. visual and sonic record of the 1960s
2.7. closely connected to social and political change
2.8. more potential fans (Boomers)
2.8.1. in USA - fifty million young people
2.9. created chaos --> seen as out of control/ problem
2.10. concert as communion
2.11. freed of convention
2.12. adopted style and attitude
2.13. got a lot of (negative) media coverage
2.14. example for imprisoning politics of gender, fandom, and popular music
3. screaming
3.1. part of Beatlemania
3.2. not unique to Beatles
3.3. declared their love
3.4. rebellion
3.4.1. gendered norms of public behavior
3.4.1.1. concerts
3.4.2. gendered social, cultural, sexual, and political
3.4.3. displayed a range of emotions/ , to express real feelings
3.4.3.1. expression of freedom
3.4.4. claim time and space
3.4.5. did it matter?