Type de publication:
BookSource:
Bloomsbury Academic,, New York, United States, p.viii, 264 pages ; (2023)Numéro d'appel:
ML421.B4Mots-clés:
fast, Humor in music, Humor in music., Humour dans la musique.Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction. Mockers, Funny Papers, and Rolling Up : Why the Beatles are Still in Play / by Katie Kapurch, Matthias Heyman, and Richard Mills -- PART I. Playing Together. The Beatles and the Bard, the Walrus and the Eggman : Playing with William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll and/as Perspective by Incongruity / by Katie Kapurch ; I Laugh and Act Like a Clown : The Beatles as Paradoxical Clowns / by Matthias Heyman ; Defuse, Dilute, Deflate : The Beatles Turn It On and Laugh It Off / by Aviv Kammay ; Billy Preston and the Beatles Get Back : Black Music and the Wisdom of Wordplay and Wit / by Mike Alleyne, Walter Everett, and Katie Kapurch -- PART II. Playing Solo. Madcap Laughs : The Evolution of John Lennon's Humor / by Jeffrey Roessner ; "Shall We Dance? This is Fun!" : Paul McCartney's Popular Song Pastiches / by David Thurmaier ; "I Was So Young When I Was Born" : George Harrison and the Mansion of Mirth / by John Covach ; George Martin, Parlophone Records, and Great Britain's Funnymen / by Kenneth Womack and Ed Zareh ; Yoko Ono's Avant-Garde Humor / by Stephanie Hernandez -- PART III. Playing in Context. Bug Music : Beatle Memes in Sixties American Sitcoms / by Matthew Schneider ; The Beatles and the Birth of British Comedy in the 1960s with Beyond the Fringe and Monty Python's Flying Circus / by Richard Mills ; Pastiche, Parody, or Post-Irony? The Beatles' Influence on Tears for Fears / by Mark Spicer."Explores the band's humour, comedy, and other forms of play in both music and non-musical discourse from the 1960s to today"--
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