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Thursday, Nov. 5
4:00–5:30 PM
Starting Over with John & Yoko: The Photographs
Pollak Theatre Gallery
Presenters: Roger Farrington & Ken Womack
6:00–9:00 PM
Registration
Springsteen Center Foyer
7:00 PM
Opening Remarks
Powell Soundstage
Presenters: Ken Womack & Nicole Michael
7:15–8:30 PM
“For No One” and Bach’s “Air on a G String”
Powell Soundstage
Presenters: Jack Petruzzelli & Cameron Greider
9:00 PM
The Blue Tins
Powell Soundstage
Friday, Nov. 6
9:00–10:00 AM
Registration
Springsteen Center Foyer
9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Morning at the Museum
Springsteen Center
Description: On Friday morning during EF4Fest, attendees are invited to join Curator Melissa Kozlowski for an exclusive guided tour of our new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music.
11:00 AM–3:00 PM
Registration
Pozycki Hall Foyer
11:30 AM–12:30 PM
Lunch Buffet
Pozycki Hall Foyer
11:45 AM–12:30 PM
Butchering the Beatles
115 Pozycki Hall
Presenter: Bruce Spizer
12:45-2:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions
Session 1 | Of the Beginning: How “Tomorrow Never Knows” Changed Everything
Time: 12:45–2:00 PM
Venue: 115 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Jason Kruppa
Panelists: Jason Kruppa and Joel Phillip Friedman
Session 2 | Countercultural Connections
Time: 12:45–2:00 PM
Venue: 223 Bey Hall
Moderator: Shannon Howard
Presentations:
- Shannon Howard — John Lennon’s “I’m Only Sleeping” and the Surprising Counterculture of Passivity and Rest
- David McKnight — “Let Me Take You Down”: A Virtual Tour of London’s 1966 Underground
- Spacey Shipman — Turn Off Your Mind: How the Beatles Helped Me Escape a Cult
Session 3 | Running Everywhere at Such a Speed
Time: 12:45–2:00 PM
Venue: 225 Bey Hall
Moderator: Stephen Davis
Presentations:
- Stephen Davis — “This Always Bloody Well Happens in Texas!”: The Beatles in Houston in 1965
- Erika White — “Jesus Died For You, John Lennon:” The Beatles and America’s Summer of Backlash
- Allison Bumsted — “Life Aboard the Yellow Submarine”: Judy Sims’s Intimate Chronicle of the Beatles’ 1966 American Tour in TeenSet Magazine
Session 4 | Revolver as Musical Tipping Point for the Beatles
Time: 12:45–2:00 PM
Venue: 227 Bey Hall
Moderator: Todd Belt
Panelists: Todd Belt and Jeff Gulati
Session 5 | I Was Alone, I Took a Ride
Time: 12:45–2:00 PM
Venue: 201 Bey Hall
Moderator: John Covach
Presentations:
- John Covach — Altered States: India, Tibet, LSD, and Revolver
- Narayan Nair — “Surrender to the Void”: A Medical Perspective on the Beatles Drug Use and Its Effects on Their Music
Session 6 | Beatles Adventures [film]
Time: 12:45–2:00 PM
Venue: 230 Bey Hall
Presenter: Mikey Arugula
2:15–3:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
Session 7 | Keeping an Eye on the World
Time: 2:15–3:30 PM
Venue: 223 Bey Hall
Moderator: Karen Duchaj
Presentations:
- Beau Christ — From Rubber Soul to Revolver: A Data-Driven Look at the Beatles’ Creative Explosion
- Karen Duchaj — Listen to the Color of Your Dreams: Visual Examination of Speech Features in Legato Psychedelic Singing
- Ramón Versage — “Everywhere at such a speed”: Dissemination of the Music from Revolver from Yesterday . . . and Today to Yellow Submarine
Session 8 | It Is Shining
Time: 2:15–3:30 PM
Venue: 225 Bey Hall
Moderator: Alex Romagnoli
Presentations:
- Elizabeth Krupinsky — And Your Bird Can Paint… An exploration of the Beatles’ Relationship to Art
- Alex Romagnoli — Transcending the Bounds of Media: The Beatles in American Superhero Comics in the 1960s and 1970s
- Tim Riley — Something about “Rain”
Session 9 | Bob Dylan
Time: 2:15–3:30 PM
Venue: 227 Bey Hall
Moderator: Jim Windolf
Presentations:
- Gregory Miller — Revolver and the Making of Modern Sound: Art, Culture, and the Studio Revolution, 1960–1966
- Jim Windolf — The Breaking Point: Bob Dylan and the Beatles, Before and After Revolver
Session 10 | Didn’t Know What I Would Find There
Time: 2:15–3:30 PM
Venue: 230 Bey Hall
Moderator: Tony Paglia
Presentations:
- Deco Freeman — Luciano Berio, James Joyce, and the Genesis of Revolver
- Tony Paglia — Who Put All Those Things in Your Head? The Art of Klaus Voormann
Session 11 | “Who Put All Those Things in Your Head?”: How Revolver (Re)Assembled the Sonic Canvas through Jukebox Bricolage and Social Assembly
Time: 2:15–3:30 PM
Venue: 201 Bey Hall
Moderator: Tom Pace
Panelists: Kit O’Toole, Tom Pace, Jeffrey Roessner
4:00–4:45 PM
Ken Burns
Woods Theatre
5:00–6:00 PM
Dinner Buffet
Woods Theatre
5:15–6:00 PM
The Beatles’ Touring Era
Woods Theatre
Presenters: Scott Freiman & Ken Womack
6:30-7:30 PM
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Powell Soundstage
8:00–8:45 PM
Nellie McKay
Powell Soundstage
9:00–10:00 PM
Blac Rabbit
Blac Rabbit
Saturday, Nov. 7
8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Registration
Pozycki Hall Foyer
9:00–10:15 AM
Concurrent Sessions
Session 12 | Paul McCartney’s Tug of War [film]
Time: 9:00–10:15 AM
Venue: 115 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Tom Frangione
Panelists: Tom Frangione and Natalie Palumbo
Session 13 | Fashion & Rebellion
Time: 9:00–10:15 AM
Venue: 204 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Jeff Gulati
Presentations:
- Jeff Gulati — Rethinking Rock Rebellion: Revolver and Freedom from Restraint
- Deirdre Kelly — Turn Off Your Tailor: Fashion, Art and the Beatles from Rubber Soul to Revolver
Session 14 | George Harrison
Time: 9:00–10:15 AM
Venue: 205 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Carlee Migliorisi
Presentations:
- David Persails — I Want to Tell You: George Harrison’s Revolver
- Carlee Migliorisi — 1966: George Harrison’s Transformative Year
Session 15 | I Want to Tell You
Time: 9:00–10:15 AM
Venue: 206 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Kenyon Rosewall
Presentations:
- Kenyon Rosewall — How the Beatles Wrote: Hidden Clues in the Music
- Sara Schmidt — Sailing to Pepperland: The Yellow Submarine as a Symbol of Peace
- Ed Zareh — Beatles of Comedy: State of the Union, 1966
Session 16 | And the Band Begins to Play: Changing Perceptions of Revolver
Time: 9:00–10:15 AM
Venue: 223 Bey Hall
Moderator: Kit O’Toole
Panelists: Darren DeVivo, Ken Michaels, and Kit O’Toole
10:30–11:45 AM
Concurrent Sessions
Session 17 | John Lennon, Maureen Cleave, and the Interview with “Backdraft”
Time: 10:30–11:45 AM
Venue: 115 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Jude Southerland-Kessler
Panelists: Jude Southerland-Kessler, Rande Kessler, and Scott McKinley
Session 18 | Paul McCartney
Time: 10:30–11:45 AM
Venue: 204 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Kathryn Cox
Presentations:
- Kathryn Cox — Paul McCartney, Legacy Mindset, and Nostalgia in the 21st Century
- Andy Nicholes — 1966: The Shift in Creative Control
- Ramón Versage — “And I must know”: Paul McCartney’s Cultural Consumption in 1966
Session 19 | Beatles Metaverse
Time: 10:30–11:45 AM
Venue: 205 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Aviv Kammay
Presentations:
- Elizabeth Briles — Sky of Blue and Sea of Green: The Beatles, World Building, and Revolver
- Rob Collier — “I Want You to Hear Me”: The Increasing Prominence of Paul McCartney’s Bass Lines on Revolver
- Aviv Kammay — Two Minutes of the Human Condition: Characters, Expression, and Text-Painting in George Martin’s String Arrangement for “Eleanor Rigby”
Session 20 | All Those Things in Your Head
Time: 10:30–11:45 AM
Venue: 206 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Ken Campbell
Presentations:
- Jack Beckett — When Your Prized Possessions Start to Weigh You Down: A Legal Perspective on the Beatles’ 1965-1967 Business Reorganization
- Ken Campbell — “Touchsongs”: When Music Holds the Moment
- Skylar Moody — The Beatles and Social Media: An Era of Limitless Creativity
Session 21 | Ranking the Beatles: “I’m Only Sleeping”
Time: 10:30–11:45 AM
Venue: 223 Bey Hall
Moderator: Jonathan Pretus
Panelists: Jason Kruppa and Erika White
12:00–1:00 PM | Lunch Buffet
Venue: Pozycki Hall Foyer
12:15–1:00 PM | Revolver in Conversation
Venue: 115 Pozycki Hall
Presenter: Rob Sheffield
1:15–2:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
Session 22 | The Road to Rishikesh
Time: 1:15–2:30 PM
Venue: 115 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Karen Bridgeman
Panelists: Karen Bridgeman, Steve Dear, Debra Kaplan, Hugh McElrath, Sallie McElrath, Marcelo Parravicini, and Cynthia Certo-Parravicini
Session 23 | 1,400 Shows Later: The Beatles’ 1966 Tour and the End of Beatlemania
Time: 1:15–2:30 PM
Venue: 204 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Richard Driver
Panelists: Richard Driver and Terry Hamblin
Session 24 | Another Kind of Mind There: Revolver’s Cultural Networks
Time: 1:15–2:30 PM
Venue: 205 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Katie Kapurch
Presentations:
- Stephanie Hernandez — Browsing at Indica: Revolver, William Blake, and the Countercultural Imagination
- Richard Mills — Revolver (1966) and Psychedelic Soul
- Katie Kapurch — From “Taxman” to Robin Hood: The Beatles and the Disneyfication of Pop
Session 25 | Fragments of 1966: Revolver, the Butcher Cover, and the Reinvention of the Beatles
Time: 1:15–2:30 PM
Venue: 206 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Erika White
Presentations:
- Gabriel Lubell — Revolver’s Uncanny Spatial Dynamics
- Erika White — The Many Myths of the Butcher Cover
- Tony Paglia — Floating Upstream: A History of Backwards Sounds in Pop Music
Session 26 | Paperback Investigator
Time: 1:15–2:30 PM
Venue: 223 Bey Hall
Moderator: Jesse Pollack
Panelists: Jesse Pollack, Sam Popkin, and Michael Vaccaro
2:45–4:00 PM
Concurrent Sessions
Session 27 | The Turning Point: How the Perception of Revolver Has Changed Over the Past Six Decades
Time: 2:45–4:00 PM
Venue: 115 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Susan Ratisher Ryan
Panelists: Janet Davis, Karen Duchaj, Kit O’Toole, James Ryan, and Susan Ratisher Ryan
Session 28 | I Know What It’s Like to Be Dead
Time: 2:45–4:00 PM
Venue: 204 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Jake Cowan
Presentations:
- Jake Cowan — Death and Taxes: A Dialectic of Necessity and Contingency on Revolver
- Cevin Soling — Eleanor Rigby and the Death of Meaning
Session 29 | Indian Music
Time: 2:45–4:00 PM
Venue: 205 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Scott DeVeaux
Presentations:
- Gregory Bruno — Enter the Drone Zone: Revolver, Jivari, and the Beatles’ Pedal Point Music
- Susan Shumsky — How Revolver Brought Indian Culture to the West
- Om Srivastava — Amalgamation of Style: Interpreting Classical Forms and Structures of Indian Classical Music Within and Without the Beatles
Session 30 | Setting the Table for Revolver
Time: 2:45–4:00 PM
Venue: 206 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Ken Womack
Presenter: Robert Rodriguez
- Karen Duchaj—Why such fury?: The Beatles’ Accent Imitation in the “Think for Yourself” Studio Chatter
- Cevin Soling—The Beatles: Love in the Shadow of Death
4:15–5:15 PM
Book-Signing Reception
Terrell Board Room
5:30–6:30 PM
Dinner Buffet
Pozycki Hall Foyer
5:45–6:30 PM
Deconstructing Revolver
115 Pozycki Hall
Presenter: Scott Freiman
7:00–8:15 PM
Magical Mystery Girls
Powell Soundstage
8:30–10:00 PM
The Cyrkle
Powell Soundstage
Sunday, Nov. 8
8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Registration
Pozycki Hall Foyer
9:00–10:15 AM
Concurrent Sessions
Session 31 | And the Band Begins to Play
Time: 9:00–10:15 AM
Venue: 115 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Punch Shaw
Presentations:
- John Littlejohn — Let Me Tell You How It Will Be: Revolver and the Album Form
- Punch Shaw — Two Revolver Albums, Separated by an Ocean
Session 32 | The Revolver Effect
Time: 9:00–10:15 AM
Venue: 204 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Bob Beatty
Presentations:
Session 34 | I Know I’ll Often Stop and Think About Them: How the Beatles Took Over Our Memories of the 1960s
Time: 9:00–10:15 AM
Venue: 206 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Susan Ratisher Ryan
Panelists: James Ryan and Susan Ratisher Ryan
Panelists: Darren DeVivo, Ken Michaels, and Kit O’Toole
10:30–11:45 AM
Concurrent Sessions
Session 35 | Every Sound There Is: Revolver’s Rock ’n’ Roll Cornucopia
Time: 10:30–11:45 AM
Venue: 115 Pozycki Hall
Panelists: Sam Popkin and Ken Womack
Session 36 | Suddenly I See You
Time: 10:30–11:45 AM
Venue: 204 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Om Srivastava
Presentations:
- Om Srivastava — Birth of the Music Video: A Contextual Examination of the Beatles’ Pioneering Presence, and Artistry on the Screen
- Ed Zareh — Tomorrow Never Knows: The Beatles and Mad Men
- Sophia Zitaki — From Revolver to Sgt. Pepper: The Reinvention of Masculinity
Session 37 | The Evolution of Beatles Lyrics about Women and Gender Roles
Time: 10:30–11:45 AM
Venue: 205 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Linda Coté
Panelists: Linda Coté and Esmirelda Pollon
Session 38 | Writing the Words
Time: 10:30–11:45 AM
Venue: 206 Pozycki Hall
Moderator: Ken Womack
Presentations:
Marcus Bradley — Imagining All the People: Poetry Inspired by the Characters in the Lyrics of the Beatles
Jerry Guarino — I Saw Her Standing There