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) /
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