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Abstract

In September 1969, The Beatles released their final recorded work, Abbey Road, an album that perfects their unique and innovative approach to multi-track recording. Following an overview of the album that stresses the structural coherence of the Abbey Road Medley, the following discussion will consider the Abbey Road track “Because” using a mosaic approach designed to meet the recorded work on its own terms. Guided by Marshall McLuhan’s probes into the cultural effects of electronic media, this discussion will pay particular attention to the ways in which “Because” creates a living narrative in acoustical space. The implications of that narrative will then be examined in light of the Beatles’ engagement with electric technologies and the ways in which that engagement portends the media environments of the twenty-first century.

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