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The Routledge companion to popular music and humor
Title
The Routledge companion to popular music and humor / edited by Thomas M. Kitts and Nick Baxter-Moore.
ISBN
9781138577565
1138577561
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Summary
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. For the first time, 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. Discussing humor in popular music across eras from Tin Pan Alley to the present, and examining the role of humor in different musical genres, case studies of artists, and media forms, this volume is a groundbreaking collection that provides a go-to reference for scholars in music, popular culture, and media studies. While most scholars, when considering humor's place in popular music, tend to focus on more "literate" forms, the contributors in this collection seek to fill in the gaps by surveying all kinds of humor, critical theories, and popular musics. Across eight parts, the essays in this collection explore topics both highbrow and low, including: Parody and satire Humor in rock and global music Gender, sexuality, and politics The music mockumentary Novelty songs Humor has long been a fixture of the popular music soundscape, whether on stage, in performance, on record, or on film. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor covers it all, presenting itself as the most comprehensive treatment of the topic to date.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 30, 2019
Series
Routledge music companions
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Popular music and humor / Thomas M. Kitts and Nick Baxter-Moore
Humor in early twentieth-century sheet music: problems of contexts and receptions / C. Matthew Balensuela
What might have been left behind: popular African-American female singers in an age of liberal reform / James Martens
Jazz humor from a musical perspective / Garth Alper
Rubes, rednecks, and novelty songs: the comedic tradition in country music / Don Cusic
Grumbly grimblies, frozen dogs, and other boojums: eccentricity from Chaucer to Carroll in English psychedelia / Peter Grant
The clown figure in 1970s rock music / Andy Bennett
Humor in metal music / Deena Weinstein
"Anarchy in Woolworths": punk comedy and humor / Russ Bestley
"Mommy's dead": the gallows humor of hardcore punk / Dennis D. McDaniel
Hip hop's sophisticated comedy / David Caplan
"The earth is doomed": geek rock, humor, and the end of the world / Victoria Willis
From Kaiso to Get on bad: humor in Trinidad's calypso and soca music / Amelia Ingram
"Call me Contractz!": humor, innovation, and competition in Jamaican music / Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Play and irony in the Kwaito music of postapartheid South Africa / Tuulikki Pietilä
Humor in Ugandan popular music / David Pier
Absurdity and nostalgia: humor in K-Pop / Sarah Keith
Negotiating blackness in French rural spaces: Kamini's hip-hop comedy / Mich Yonah Nywalo
The "sly wit" of Chuck Berry / Wayne Robins
The British invasion of the Wild West: country parody on the Rolling Stones and other British bands / Olivery Lovesey
"I never said I was tasteful": Lou Reed and the classic philosophy of humor / Steven L. Hamelman
Randy Newman's satirical vision and the myths of America / Theodore Louis Trost
"You ain't laughing, are you?": humor, mistery, and the replacements / Timothy Gray
The Coasters: funny and not so funny / Lawrence Pitilli
Lonnie Donegan: from trad jazz to King of Skiffle and variety star / Mats Greiff
Mountain butterfly: Dolly Parton's transformational personal in American country music / Pamela Wilson
The wacky and zany world of Flo & Eddie / Thomas M. Kitts
"Dare to be stupid": covering "Weird Al" Yankovic / Michael Mooradian Lupro
The Aquabats!: defeating evil one show at a time! / Eric J. Abbey
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever": a genealogy of the music mockumentary / Michael Brendan Baker and Peter Lester
"We must b flipping out": Frank Zappa's 200 Motels as a carnivalesque subversion of pop music / Scott Henderson
All you need is cash: skewering a legend with the Prefab Four / Kenneth Womack
This chapter goes to eleven: This is Spinal Tap and the blurring of authenticity and fabrication / Colin Helb
"Goodnight to the rock 'n' roll era": pavement and the negotiation of ambivalence in 1994 / Court Carney
Looking for the joke with a microscope: the intersection of music and humor in Repo Man / David A. Ensminger
Humor in the "booty video": female artists talk back through the hip-hop intertext / Lori Burns and Alyssa Woods
Of shreds, spoofs, and participatory cultures: parodies of popular music videos in Web 2.0 contexts / Martin Butler
Ethnic parody in the age of fracture / John Thomerson
"Don't I look like a Halle Berry poster?: humor and irony in women's hip-hop / Gail Hilson Woldu
We don't know how lucky we are: masculine humor in New Zealand popular music / Nick Braae
From "Tsar Nikolai, go f*ck your mother!: to "Putin, go f*ck yourself!": musical humor in oppresive regimes / Adriana Helbig
After the laughter: Al-Manawahly's songs and the poetics of subversive humor in Egypt / Noha Radwan
"(What's so funny 'bout) peace, love, and understanding": humor in protest music / Nick Baxter-Moor
Unintended humor in popular music / Nick Baxter-Moor and Thomas M. Kitts.
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