Anarchy in Woolworths – Punk Comedy and Humour
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University of the Arts, London
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 216
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- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor
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- Routledge
- ISBN
- 978-1138-57756-5
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2019
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0
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- Additional information
- The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor provides a thorough and wide-ranging study of the intersection of popular music with humour and comedy. While the book’s principal focus is on mass music since the birth of rock and roll in the 1950s, it also considers some of its precursory musical forms from the first half of the 20th century, including the blues, jazz, Tin Pan Alley, music hall/vaudeville and early country (or ‘hillbilly’) music. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor includes contributions from well-known popular music scholars including Andy Bennett, Don Cusic, Deena Weinstein and Kenneth Womack. The book features 46 chapters of 5,000 words each, a volume introduction, and introductions to each section, for a total of 512 pages.
Anarchy in Woolworths — Punk Comedy and Humour outlines the ways in which punk’s embrace of comedy and humour — through strategies including satire, hyperbole, parody, self-deprecation and profanity — is central to an understanding of its language and practice. Comedy also embraced punk — taking punk’s media storm as a supposedly easy target for ridicule. This chapter highlights some of the overlaps and distinctions between external commentators and the internal discourse of the subculture: between comedy parodies of the new punk phenomenon by established comedians such as Charlie Drake, the Two Ronnies and the Goodies and upcoming punk comic performers including Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias, John Cooper Clarke and Jilted John. Punk and comedy are closely connected, though the often caustic and abrasive nature of punk’s internal discourse may obscure its humorous intent for observers outside the subculture.
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