Michael Frontani, an associate professor in the School of Communications, was a guest July 28, 2010, on North Carolina Public Radio's "The State of Things," where he discussed with host Frank Stasio the continuing popularity of Paul McCartney.
McCartney and his band gave a sold-out concert at Charlotte’s Time-Warner Cable Arena on July 28. Among the topics discussed were McCartney’s wide-ranging musical interests and social activism.
Frontani’s 2007 book, The Beates: Image and the Media, received a CHOICE award as an “Outstanding Academic Title” for 2008, and he wrote a chapter for the Cambridge University Press’s The Cambridge Companion to The Beatles.