Walter Everett (musicologist)

{{Short description|Music theorist specializing in popular music}}

Walter Everett is a music theorist specializing in popular music who teaches at the University of Michigan.

His books include The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology (1999, {{ISBN|978-0-19-512941-0}}), which has been called "the most important work to appear on the Beatles thus far","[http://www.aa.psu.edu/ivyleaf/fa07/collegenews13.htm The 2007/2008 Kjell Meling Award]", Penn State Altoona. and its follow-up volume, The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul (2001). He also wrote The Foundations of Rock: From 'Blue Suede Shoes' to 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes' (2008, {{ISBN|978-0-19-531024-5}}) and has contributed to titles in the Cambridge Companions to Music series.

Gary Burns, editor of the journal Popular Music and Society, describes Everett's Beatles as Musicians volumes as a "monumental two-book set" that has furthered the field of musicological study begun in 1973 by Wilfrid Mellers.{{cite book|last=Burns|first=Gary|chapter=Beatles News: Product line extensions and the rock canon|editor-last=Womack |editor-first=Kenneth|year=2009|title=The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles|location=Cambridge, UK|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-68976-2|page=228}} According to Michael Frontani, author of The Beatles: Image and the Media, the books represent a "landmark of scholarship" about the band's music.{{cite book|last=Frontani|first=Michael R.|year=2007|title=The Beatles: Image and the Media|url=https://archive.org/details/beatlesimagemedi0000fron|url-access=registration|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|location=Jackson, MS|isbn=978-1-57806-966-8|page=242}}

Everett received the Kjell Meling Award for Distinction in the Arts and Humanities.