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Going further back in time, parody and satire are time-honored traditions in music and were especially popular in the 1930’s and ‘60s, times of major political upheaval in the U.S. as the country went through a depression and the civil rights movement, respectively, to comment on politics. Weird Al got his start on Dr. Demento’s radio show.
Jun 27, 2016 · 5 James Beattie was probably the first to present an incongruity theory on humor, in An Essay on Laughter and the Ludicrous, from 1776: “Laughter arises from the view of two or more inconsistent, unsuitable, or incongruous parts or circumstances, considered as united in one complex object or assemblage, or as acquiring a sort of mutual relation from the peculiar manner in which the mind ...
- Asbjørn Øfsthus Eriksen
- 2016
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John R. Covach. On March 22, 1978, NBC aired a 90-minute "docudrama" entitled, "The Rutles: All You Need is Cash."1 The focus of this. satirical film is the fictitious 1960's musical group, "The Rutles." As the title of the film already suggests, the Rutles are modeled on the Beatles, and the densely packed references to the "Fab Four" which.
Theorists of music video have usually addressed these questions from the perspective of sociology, film theory or popular cultural studies. Film theory, in particular, has had a tremendous influence on the analysis of music video, because of the two genres' apparently similar structuring of sound and image.
- John Covach
All parody (including pastiche) is interpretive of its source, and in interpreting that source it makes an argument about that source—its features and the value of those features. In making that argument, parody establishes or reacts to a norm, a norm at times in line with a cultural dominant and at other times opposed to it.
Oct 25, 2017 · The focus of this book is musical irony. It offers new methodologies for the semiotic analysis of music, and inspects the ironical messages in Shostakovich‘s music independently of political and biographical bias. Its approach to music is interdisciplinary, comparing musical devices with the artistic principles and literary analyses of satire ...
Aug 1, 2018 · There is a consensus that satire cannot be defined, but is best characterized by a cluster account. However, I argue that a cluster account does not acknowledge the artistically and politically significant distinction between real satire and some forms of frivolous topical comedy which are casually labeled ‘satire’ in international media contexts.
