The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor

Contents

• 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 Pietila) /
• 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