The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor

Thomas M. Kitts is Professor of English at St. John's University, NY, USA, author of a recent book on John Fogerty, and coeditor of Popular Music and Society and Rock Music Studies. Nick Baxter-Moore is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, Brock University, St Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada.

Popular Music and Humor: An Introduction (Thomas M. Kitts and Nick Baxter-Moore) / Part 1: Historical Antecedents / 1. Humor in Early Twentieth-Century Sheet Music: Problems of Contexts and Receptions (C. Matthew Balensuela) / 2. What Might Have Been Left Behind: Popular African-American Female Singers in an Age of Liberal Reform (James Martens) / 3. Jazz Humor from a Musical Perspective (Garth Alper) / 4. Rubes, Rednecks, and Novelty Songs: The Comedic Tradition in Country Music (Don Cusic) / Part 2: Humor in Rock Music Genres / 5. Grumbly Grimblies, Frozen Dogs, and Other Boojums: Eccentricity from Chaucer to Carroll in English Psychedelia (Peter Grant) / 6. The Clown Figure in 1970s Rock Music (Andy Bennett) / 7. Humor in Metal Music(Deena Weinstein) / 8. Anarchy in Woolworths: Punk Comedy and Humor (Russ Bestley) / 9. Mommy’s Dead: The Gallows Humor of Hardcore Punk (Dennis D. McDaniel) / 10. Hip Hop’s Sophisticated Comedy (David Caplan) / 11. The Earth Is Doomed: Geek Rock, Humor, and the End of the World (Victoria Willis) / Part 3: Humor in Global Music / 12. From Kaiso to Get on Bad: Humor in Trinidad’s Calypso and Soca Music (Amelia Ingram) / 13. Call de Contracta! Humor, Innovation, and Competition in Jamaican Music (Sonjah Stanley Niaah) / 14. Play and Irony in the Kwaito Music of Postapartheid South Africa (Tuulikki Pietilä) / 15. Humor in Ugandan Popular Music (David Pier) / 16. Absurdity and Nostalgia: Humor in K-Pop (Sarah Keith) / 17. Negotiating Blackness in French Rural Spaces: Kamini’s Hip-Hop Comedy (Mich Yonah Nyawalo) / Part 4: Selected Artists I: Humor in Popular Music / 18. The Sly Wit of Chuck Berry (Wayne Robins) / 19. The British Invasion of the Wild West: Country Parody in the Rolling Stones and Other British Bands (Oliver Lovesey)/ 20. I N