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 & 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