TeaFlix Interview with Katie Kapurch
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TeaFlix Interview with Katie Kapurch
Hosted by Dr. Angie McCartney & Ruth McCartney
Katie Kapurch, Ph.D., is Professor of English at Texas State University. Katie's scholarship focuses on icons and the iconic, from pop musicians to mermaids, from Twilight vampires to Disney princesses.
Dr. Katie is the author of Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century (2016) and the co-author of Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles Into Being— and Sang Back to Them Ever After (2023; with Jon Marc Smith), which was supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Katie is also co-editor of the books New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles (2016; with Kenneth Womack) and The Beatles and Humour (2023; with Richard Mills and Matthias Heyman). Forthcoming books include one about the Disneyfication of pop with the Beatles, Beyonce, and Taylor Swift (forthcoming in 2026) and one about mermaids as pop icons (expected 2028).
Katie has also published many academic chapters and articles, as well as essays in The Conversation, CultureSonar, and Pop Matters. She has been interviewed by outlets such as Salon and the AP (Associated Press). You can find more info and links to Katie's publications on her website (www.katiekapurch.com) and on Academia.edu and ResearchGate. You can also follow Katie on Insta, FB, Twitter/X, and LinkedIn!
She co-authored her latest book "Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being—and Sang Back to Them Ever After" with Jon Marc Smith.
From the beginning, the Beatles acknowledged in interviews their debt to Black music, apparent in their covers of and written original songs inspired by #ChuckBerry, #LittleRichard, #FatsDomino, the #Shirelles, and other giants of R&B. #Blackbird goes deeper, appreciating unacknowledged forerunners, as well as Black artists whose interpretations keep the Beatles in play.
Drawing on interviews with Black musicians and using the song “Blackbird” as a touchstone, Katie Kapurch and Jon Marc Smith tell a new history. They present unheard stories and re-situate old ones, offering the phrase “transatlantic flight” to characterize a back-and-forth dialogue shaped by Black musicians in the United States and elsewhere, including Liverpool. Kapurch and Smith find a lineage that reaches back to the very origins of American popular music, one that involves the original twentieth-century blackbird, Florence Mills, and the King of the Twelve String, #LeadBelly. Continuing the circular flight path with Nina Simone, Billy Preston, #JimiHendrix, #ArethaFranklin, #Sylvester, and others, the authors take readers into the twenty-first century, when Black artists like Bettye LaVette harness the Beatles for today.
Detailed, thoughtful, and revelatory, Blackbird explores musical and storytelling legacies full of rich but contested symbolism. Appealing to those interested in developing a deep understanding of the evolution of popular music, this book promises that you’ll never hear “Blackbird”—and the Beatles—the same way again.
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