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The Lasting Popularity of “Strawberry Fields Forever’^

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SFF is a processing of memory that illustrates Everett’s first category of Beatle
commemoration as well: Heard as psychological bridge and mythic text, SFF can protect
the singer-narrator from current misery.
5. Cultural studies and popular music scholar Lawrence Grossberg reminds us that “music
articulates its power” whenever it “attempt[s] to transcend [the oppression