Description:
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. 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.
Review Quotes:
"Overall, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor is a refreshing assessment of the integration of humor within music and how this speaks of society on various levels. The text is creative and presents a commonly nonspecialist topic in a highly scholarly format. Summing Up: Recommended."
--A. E. Handfield, Manhattan College, CHOICE
"Music and humor can come together in ways obvious or hidden, silly or even serious. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor looks at their rich interplay from a great variety of perspectives. Indeed, variety stands as a key component to this volume. Over eight parts and forty-two chapters, scholars and artists from many fields tackle music from different genres and different parts of the world. The volume's fine introduction grounds these disparate contributions for a work which stands as a coherent whole. ... The great variety of topics addressed in The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor demonstrates how wide-reaching and important this volume is."
--John Littlejohn, Popular Music and Society