The Beatles and Humour: Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play

Contents

• Editor and Contributor Bios
• Introduction Mockers, Funny Papers, and Rolling Up: Why the Beatles are Still in Play Katie Kapurch, Texas State University, USA, Matthias Heyman, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Richard Mills, St Mary's University, UK
• PART I : Playing Together
• 1. The Beatles and the Bard, the Walrus and the Eggman: Playing with William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll and/as Perspective by Incongruity Katie Kapurch, Texas State University, USA
• 2. I Laugh and Act Like a Clown: The Beatles as Paradoxical Clowns Matthias Heyman, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• 3. Defuse, Dilute, Deflate: The Beatles Turn It On and Laugh It Off Aviv Kammay, Wingra School, USA
• 4. Billy Preston and the Beatles Get Back : Black Music and the Wisdom of Wordplay and Wit Mike Alleyne, Middle Tennessee State University, USA, Walter Everett, University of Michigan, USA, and Katie Kapurch, Texas State University
• PART II : Playing Solo
• 5. Madcap Laughs: The Evolution of John Lennon's Humor Jeffrey Roessner, Mercyhurst University, USA
• 6. "Shall We Dance? This is Fun!": Paul McCartney's Popular Song Pastiches David Thurmaier, University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, USA
• 7. "I Was So Young When I Was Born": George Harrison and the Mansion of Mirth John Covach, University of Rochester, USA
• 8. George Martin, Parlophone Records, and Great Britain's Funnymen Kenneth Womack, Monmouth University, USA, and Ed Zareh, writer, USA
• 9. Yoko Ono's Avant-Garde Humor Stephanie Hernandez, Independent Scholar, UK
• PART III : Playing in Context
• 10. Bug Music: Beatle Memes in Sixties American Sitcoms Matthew Schneider, High Point University, USA
• 11. The Beatles and the Birth of British Comedy in the 1960s with Beyond the Fringe and Monty Python's Flying Circus Richard Mills, St Mary's University, UK
• 12. Pastiche, Parody, or Post-Irony? The Beatles' Influence on Tears for Fears Mark Spicer, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
• Index