The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Popular Music and Humor: An introduction -- Part 1 Historical Antecedents -- 1 Humor in Early Twentieth-Century Sheet Music: Problems of Contexts and Receptions -- 2 What Might Have Been left Behind: Popular African-American Female Singers in an Age of liberal Reform -- 3 Jazz Humor from a Musical Perspective -- 4 Rubes, Rednecks, and Novelty Songs: The Comedic Tradition in Country Music -- Part 2 Humor in Rock Music Genres -- 5 Grumbly Grimblies, Frozen Dogs, and Other Boojums: Eccentricity from Chaucer to Carroll in English Psychedelia -- 6 The Clown Figure in 1970s Rock Music -- 7 Humor in Metal Music -- 8 "Anarchy in Woolworths": Punk Comedy and Humor -- 9 "Mommy's Dead": The Gallows Humor of Hardcore Punk -- 10 Hip Hop's Sophisticated Comedy -- 11 "The Earth is doomed": Geek Rock, Humor, and the End of the World -- Part 3 Humor in Global Music -- 12 From Kaiso to Get on Bad: Humor in Trinidad's Calypso and Soca Music -- 13 "Call de Contracta!": Humor, innovation, and Competition in Jamaican Music -- 14 Play and irony in the Kwaito Music of Postapartheid South Africa -- 15 Humor in Ugandan Popular Music -- 16 Absurdity and Nostalgia: Humor in K-Pop -- 17 Negotiating Blackness in French Rural Spaces: Kamini's Hip-Hop Comedy -- Part 4 Selected Artists I: Humor in Popular Music -- 18 The "Sly Wit" of Chuck Berry -- 19 The British Invasion of the Wild West: Country Parody in the Rolling Stones and Other British Bands -- 20 "I never said I was tasteful": Lou Reed and the Classic Philosophy of Humor -- 21 Randy Newman's Satirical Vision and the Myth of America -- 22 "You ain't laughing, are you?": Humor, Misery, and the Replacements -- Part 5 Selected Artists II: Comedy in Popular Music -- 23 The Coasters: Funny and Not So Funny.

24 Lonnie Donegan: From Trad Jazz to King of Skiffle and Variety Star -- 25 Mountain Butterfly: Dolly Parton's Transformational Persona in American Country Music -- 26 The Wacky and Zany World of Flo &amp -- Eddie -- 27 "Dare to Be Stupid": Covering "Weird Al" Yankovic -- 28 The Aquabats! Defeating Evil One Show at a Time! -- Part 6 The Music Mockumentary -- 29 "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever": A Genealogy of the Music Mockumentary -- 30 "We Must Be Flipping Out": Frank Zappa's 200 Motels as a Carnivalesque Subversion of Pop Music -- 31 All You Need Is Cash: Skewering a legend with the Prefab Four -- 32 This Chapter Goes to Eleven: This Is Spinal Tap and the Blurring of Authenticity and Fabrication -- Part 7 Popular Music and Humor on Screen -- 33 "Goodnight to the rock 'n' roll era": Pavement and the Negotiation of Ambivalence in 1994 -- 34 Looking for the Joke with a Microscope: The Intersection of Music and Humor in Repo Man -- 35 Humor in the "Booty Video": Female Artists Talk Back Through the Hip-Hop Intertext -- 36 Of Shreds, Spoofs, and Participatory Cultures: Parodies of Popular Music Videos in Web 2.0 Contexts -- Part 8 Gender, Sexuality, and Politics -- 37 Ethnic Parody in the Age of Fracture -- 38 "Don't I look like a Halle Berry poster?": Humor and Irony in Women's Hip Hop -- 39 We Don't Know How Lucky We Are: Masculine Humor in New Zealand Popular Music -- 40 From "Tsar Nikolai, Go F*ck Your Mother!" to "Putin, Go F*ck Yourself!": Musical Humor in Oppressive Regimes -- 41 After the Laughter: Al-Manawahly's Songs and the Poetics of Subversive Humor in Egypt -- 42 "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding": Humor in Protest Music -- Coda: Unintentional Humor in Popular Music -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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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