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The Beatles and humour : mockers, funny papers, and other play
- Title
- The Beatles and humour : mockers, funny papers, and other play / edited by Katie Kapurch, Richard Mills, and Matthias Heyman.
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
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- Description
- viii, 264 pages: music; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Explores the band's humour, comedy, and other forms of play in both music and non-musical discourse from the 1960s to today"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Humor
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JME 23-579
- ISBN
- 9781501379345
- 1501379348
- 9781501379352
- 1501379356
- LCCN
- 2023001572
- OCLC
- 1358757843
- Title
- The Beatles and humour : mockers, funny papers, and other play / edited by Katie Kapurch, Richard Mills, and Matthias Heyman.
- Publisher
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Kapurch, Katie, 1983- editor.Mills, Richard, 1949 November 14- editor.Heyman, Matthias, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Beatles and humour [1st.] New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023 9781501379383 (DLC) 2023001573
- Research Call Number
- JME 23-579