Taking Funny Music Seriously

Lily E. Hirsch (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

268 Seiten

2024
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06994-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Lily E. Hirsch is a musicologist and author most recently of Can't Stop the Grrrls: Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono; Weird Al: Seriously; and Insulting Music: A Lexicon of Insult in Music.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Set-Up
1. Live from Largo
2. Staying Demented
3. Bad Singing
Part II: Jesting by Genre
4. Tapping into Movie Music
5. Classical Music is Comedic (Again)
6. Hip-Hop Meow
7. Banter, Banjo, and Bumpkins
8. Heavy and Hilarious (Metal)
9. Funny Girls
Part III: Humorous Music by Topic
10. Humor about Humor
11. Silly Love Songs
12. Poisoning Pigeons
Conclusion: Comedic Music in Crisis
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	Comedy & Culture
Zusatzinfo	12 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-253-06994-7 / 0253069947
ISBN-13	978-0-253-06994-8 / 9780253069948
Zustand	Neuware