The Beatles and humour mockers, funny papers, and other play / edited by Katie Kapurch, Richard Mills, and Matthias Heyman.
| Other author | Kapurch, Katie, 1983- |
| Other author | Mills, Richard, 1949 November 14- |
| Other author | Heyman, Matthias. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. |
| Description | viii, 264 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "Explores the band's humour, comedy, and other forms of play in both music and non-musical discourse from the 1960s to today"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023001572 |
| ISBN | 9781501379345 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781501379352 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| ISBN | (ebook other) |