The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kitts, Thomas M.; Baxter-Moore, Nick

• Format: ePub

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351266628
• Artikelnr.: 56840414

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 and 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 N