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Author : George Goodwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Song Dex Treasury of Humorous and Nostalgic Songs written by George Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 166 pages
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Download or read book The Nightingale Songster, Or Lyrics of Love and Humor written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas M. Kitts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351266624
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor written by Thomas M. Kitts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. For the first time, 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. Discussing humor in popular music across eras from Tin Pan Alley to the present, and examining the role of humor in different musical genres, case studies of artists, and media forms, this volume is a groundbreaking collection that provides a go-to reference for scholars in music, popular culture, and media studies. While most scholars, when considering humor’s place in popular music, tend to focus on more "literate" forms, the contributors in this collection seek to fill in the gaps by surveying all kinds of humor, critical theories, and popular musics. Across eight parts, the essays in this collection explore topics both highbrow and low, including: Parody and satire Humor in rock and global music Gender, sexuality, and politics The music mockumentary Novelty songs Humor has long been a fixture of the popular music soundscape, whether on stage, in performance, on record, or on film. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor covers it all, presenting itself as the most comprehensive treatment of the topic to date.
Author : Louis J. Budd
Publisher : Best from American Literature
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book On Humor written by Louis J. Budd and published by Best from American Literature. This book was released on 1992 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Ten Cent “Ten Little Injuns” Songster written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ginette Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317357760
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Fellowship of Song written by Ginette Dunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980. Song is perhaps the strongest form of traditional culture. Its vigour and energy represent the power of the community from which it springs. This book focuses on traditional singing in two small English villages. It studies in detail an activity which goes to the core of the communal life in any village and demonstrates how song becomes the lifeblood of the traditions of rural life. In many ways traditional singing is highly subversive because its practice is an affirmation of community and a denial of the fragmentation of modern society. The songs sung, those remembered, the singers now dead whose lives are recalled each time an old favourite is performed, all connect the present with the past. The primary aesthetic concern within these singing traditions is that a man should sing, whatever the objective quality of his performance; and a song should tell a good story. The individual singer assumes a special role in performance since he becomes spokesman for a group and gives voice not only to personal but also to social concerns, dynamics and emotions.
Author : Tony Pastor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tony Pastor's 201 Bowery Songster written by Tony Pastor and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bush Jones
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584654438
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (544 download)
Download or read book The Songs that Fought the War written by John Bush Jones and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively social history of popular wartime songs and how they helped America's home front morale.
Author : Albert J. Spencer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Spencer's Book of Comic Speeches and Humorous Recitations ... written by Albert J. Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Minnie M. Brashear
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187557
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Art, Humor, and Humanity of Mark Twain written by Minnie M. Brashear and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain is revealed here in an entirely new autobiographical light from his own writings as they reflect his career, his thinking, and his humor. This volume captures the grandeur that distinguishes Mark Twain as, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, “by far the greatest American writer.” Made up of short stories and excerpts from Twain’s principal works, this collection demonstrates Twain’s artistry in handling anecdotes, tales, description, and characterization; the fervency of his ethical convictions; his effective use of irony, satire, burlesque, and caricature; and his essential humanity. By arranging the materials in chronological order and weaving them together with critical commentary, the editors present the many facets of Mark Twain’s experience and his dynamic personality with greater continuity than in previous collections of Twain’s writings. Here is the optimism of the young Mark Twain responding to the rough and rugged vitality of the mid-nineteenth-century American scene, and the skepticism and pessimism of the older Mark Twain reacting to the American democratic experiment of the late nineteenth century.
Author : Walter Blair
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299136246
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Essays on American Humor written by Walter Blair and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Blair was the literary scholar who almost single-handedly gave the study of American humor significance in the academic world. By categorizing the writings of American literary humorists into such diverse styles as the Old Southwest, Local Color, and Literary Comedian humor -- each having serious social import--Blair abolished the notion that they were all practicing the same kind of intellectual irreverence. Moving through more than six decades of Walter Blair's works, Essays on American Humor: Blair through the Ages provides a comprehensive introduction to the discipline he developed. Hamlin Hill has selected and ordered this collection to show the scope of Blair's expertise, which encompasses the careers of tall-tale characters like Baron Munchausen as well as the achievements of such real-life humorists as E. B. White. The pieces range in time from Blair's introduction to the 1928 edition of Julia A. Moore's poetry to his 1989 introduction to a work commemorating Davy Crockett's two-hundredth anniversary. Historical and biographical essays, source-and-influence studies, and analyses of texts constitute the bulk of the book. An entire section is devoted to discourses on Mark Twain, Blair's major subject.
Author : Katie Kapurch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501379380
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Beatles and Humour written by Katie Kapurch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beatles are known for cheeky punchlines, but understanding their humor goes beyond laughing at John Lennon's memorable “rattle your jewelry” dig at the Royal Variety Performance in 1963. From the beginning, the Beatles' music was full of wordplay and winks, guided by comedic influences ranging from rhythm and blues, British radio, and the Liverpool pub scene. Gifted with timing and deadpan wit, the band habitually relied on irony, sarcasm, and nonsense. Early jokes revealed an aptitude for improvisation and self-awareness, techniques honed throughout the 1960s and into solo careers. Experts in the art of play, including musical experimentation, the Beatles' shared sense of humor is a key ingredient to their appeal during the 1960s-and to their endurance. The Beatles and Humour offers innovative takes on the serious art of Beatle fun, an instrument of social, political, and economic critique. Chapters also situate the band alongside British and non-British predecessors and collaborators, such as Billy Preston and Yoko Ono, uncovering diverse components and unexpected effects of the Beatles' output.
Author : Daniel Wickberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801454379
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Senses of Humor written by Daniel Wickberg and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of an idea, Wickberg's study provides new insights into a peculiarly modern cultural sensibility.The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between Medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions, among others, using the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak.The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians.
Author : Lily E. Hirsch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253069963
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Taking Funny Music Seriously written by Lily E. Hirsch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take funny music seriously! Though often dismissed as silly or derivative, funny music, Lily E. Hirsch argues, is incredibly creative and dynamic, serving multiple aims from the celebratory to the rebellious, the entertaining to the mentally uplifting. Music can be a rich site for humor, with so many opportunities that are ripe for a comedic left turn. Taking Funny Music Seriously includes original interviews with some of the best musical humorists, such as Tom Lehrer, "the J. D. Salinger of musical satire"; Peter Schickele, who performed as the invented composer P. D. Q. Bach, the supposed lost son of the great J. S. Bach; Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome of the funny music duo Garfunkel and Oates; comedic film composer Theodore Shapiro; Too Slim of the country group Riders in the Sky; and musical comedian Jessica McKenna, from the podcast Off Book, part of a long line of "funny girls." With their help, Taking Funny Music Seriously examines comedy from a variety of genres and musical contexts--from bad singing to rap, classical music to country, Broadway music to film music, and even love songs and songs about death. In its coverage of comedic musical media, Taking Funny Music Seriously is an accessible and lively look at funny music. It offers us a chance to appreciate more fully the joke in music and the benefits of getting that joke--especially in times of crisis--including comfort, catharsis, and connection.
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Total Pages : 1972 pages
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Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810844249
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Romantic Vs. Screwball Comedy written by Wes D. Gehring and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is an informative resource for film students and scholars and a thoroughly engaging read for film buffs."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Kevin Byrne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000614808
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Jukebox Musical written by Kevin Byrne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive guide to the unique genre of the jukebox musical, delving into its history to explain why these musicals have quickly become beloved for multiple generations of theatergoers and practitioners. Providing a concise exploration of the three main categories of the jukebox musical—biographical, genre-specific, and artist catalog—this text is perfect for those wishing to learn more about this relatively recent and unique genre of theater. It identifies the dramaturgical needs that arise in these productions and explains how certain works become critical darlings or fan favorites. How much information needs to be conveyed through song and how much can be left up to interpretation by the audience? What kinds of changes occur when a repertoire of songs is reimagined for the stage? In addition to these insightful explorations, it also reveals how creative teams tackle the unique challenge of weaving together plot and song in order to convey meaning, emotion, excitement, and beauty in these increasingly popular forms of theater. The Jukebox Musical: An Interpretive History is written for students, performers, and musical theater enthusiasts alike: this is the ideal introduction to one of the twnty-first century's most popular and successful stage genres.
