The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor

Herausgeber: Kitts, Thomas M; Baxter-Moore, Nick

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Produktbeschreibung

An essential part of human expression, humor plays a role in all forms of art, and humorous and comedic aspects have always been part of popular music. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor draws together scholarship exploring how the element of humor interacts with the artistic and social aspects of the musical experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 185mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1013g
• ISBN-13: 9781138577565
• ISBN-10: 1138577561
• Artikelnr.: 56753460

Autorenporträt

Thomas M. Kitts is Professor of English at St. John's University, NY, USA, author of a recent book on John Fogerty, and coeditor of Popular Music and Society and Rock Music Studies. Nick Baxter-Moore is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University, St Catharine's, Ontario, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Popular Music and Humor: An Introduction (Thomas M. Kitts & Nick
Baxter-Moore) / Part 1: Historical Antecedents / 1. Humor in Early
Twentieth-Century Sheet Music: Problems of Contexts and Receptions (C.
Matthew Balensuela) / 2. What Might Have Been Left Behind: Popular
African-American Female Singers in an Age of Liberal Reform (James Martens)
/ 3. Jazz Humor from a Musical Perspective (Garth Alper) / 4. Rubes,
Rednecks, and Novelty Songs: The Comedic Tradition in Country Music (Don
Cusic) / Part 2: Humor in Rock Music Genres / 5. Grumbly Grimblies, Frozen
Dogs, and Other Boojums: Eccentricity from Chaucer to Carroll in English
Psychedelia (Peter Grant) / 6. The Clown Figure in 1970s Rock Music (Andy
Bennett) / 7. Humor in Metal Music (Deena Weinstein) / 8. "Anarchy in
Woolworths": Punk Comedy and Humor (Russ Bestley) / 9. "Mommy's Dead": The
Gallows Humor of Hardcore Punk (Dennis D. McDaniel) / 10. Hip Hop's
Sophisticated Comedy (David Caplan) / 11. "The Earth Is Doomed": Geek Rock,
Humor, and the End of the World (Victoria Willis) / Part 3: Humor in Global
Music / 12. From Kaiso to Get on Bad: Humor in Trinidad's Calypso and Soca
Music (Amelia Ingram) / 13. "Call de Contracta!" Humor, Innovation, and
Competition in Jamaican Music (Sonjah Stanley Niaah) / 14. Play and Irony
in the Kwaito Music of Postapartheid South Africa (Tuulikki Pietilä) / 15.
Humor in Ugandan Popular Music (David Pier) / 16. Absurdity and Nostalgia:
Humor in K-Pop (Sarah Keith) / 17. Negotiating Blackness in French Rural
Spaces: Kamini's Hip-Hop Comedy (Mich Yonah Nyawalo) / Part 4: Selected
Artists I: Humor in Popular Music / 18. The "Sly Wit" of Chuck Berry (
Wayne Robins) / 19. The British Invasion of the Wild West: Country Parody
in the Rolling Stones and Other British Bands (Oliver Lovesey) / 20. "I
Never Said I Was Tasteful": Lou Reed and the Classic Philosophy of Humor (
Steven L. Hamelman) / 21. Randy Newman's Satirical Vision and the Myth of
America (Theodore Louis Trost) / 22. "You Ain't Laughing, Are You?" Humor,
Misery, and the Replacements (Timothy Gray) / Part 5: Selected Artists II:
Popular Music and Comedy / 23. The Coasters: Funny and Not So Funny (
Lawrence Pitilli) / 24. Lonnie Donegan: From Trad Jazz to King of Skiffle
and Variety Star (Mats Greiff) / 25. Mountain Butterfly: Dolly Parton's
Transformational Persona in American Country Music (Pamela Wilson) / 26.
The Wacky and Zany World of Flo & Eddie (Thomas M. Kitts) / 27. "Dare to Be
Stupid": Covering "Weird Al" Yankovic (Michael Mooradian Lupro) / 28. The
Aquabats! Defeating Evil One Show at a Time! (Eric J. Abbey) / Part 6: The
Music Mockumentary / 29. "It's Such a Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever":
A Genealogy of the Music Mockumentary (Michael Brendan Baker and Peter
Lester) / 30. "We Must Be Flipping Out": Frank Zappa's 200 Motels as a
Carnivalesque Subversion of Pop Music (Scott Henderson) / 31. All You Need
Is Cash: Skewering a Legend with the Prefab Four (Kenneth Womack) / 32.
This Chapter Goes to Eleven: This Is Spinal Tap and the Blurring of
Authenticity and Fabrication (Colin Helb) / Part 7: Popular Music and Humor
on Screen / 33. "Goodnight to the Rock 'n' Roll Era": Pavement and the
Negotiation of Ambivalence in 1994 (Court Carney) / 34. Looking for the
Joke with a Microscope: The Intersections of Music and Humor in Repo Man
(David A. Ensminger) / 35. Humor in the "Booty Video": Female Artists Talk
Back Through the Hip-Hop Intertext (Lori Burns & Alyssa Woods) / 36. Of
Shreds, Spoofs, and Participatory Cultures: Parodies of Popular Music
Videos in Web 2.0 Contexts (Martin Butler) / Part 8: Gender, Sexuality, and
Politics / 37. Ethnic Parody in the Age of Fracture (John Thomerson) / 38.
"Don't I Look Like a Halle Berry Poster?": Humor and Irony in Women's Hip
Hop (Gail Hilson Woldu) / 39. We Don't Know How Lucky We Are: Masculine
Humor in New Zealand Popular Music (Nick Braae) / 40. From "Tsar Nikolai,
Go F*ck Your Mother!" to "Putin, Go F*ck Yourself!": Musical Humor in
Oppressive Regimes (Adriana Helbig) / 41. After the Laughter:
Al-Manawahly's Songs and the Poetics of Subversive Humor in Egypt (Noha
Radwan) / 42. "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding":
Humor in Protest Music (Nick Baxter-Moore) / Coda: Unintentional Humor in
Popular Music (Nick Baxter-Moore & Thomas M. Kitts) / Notes on Contributors
/ Index