Music in Comedy Television
eBook - ePub

Music in Comedy Television

Notes on Laughs

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Music in Comedy Television

Notes on Laughs

About this book

The study of television and music has expanded greatly in recent years, yet to date no book has focused on the genre of comedy television as it relates to music. Music in Comedy Television: Notes on Laughs fills that gap, breaking new critical ground. With contributions from an array of established and emerging scholars representing a range of disciplines, the twelve essays included cover a wide variety of topics and television shows, spanning nearly fifty years across network, cable, and online structures and capturing the latest research in this growing area of study. From Sesame Street to Saturday Night Live, from Monty Python to Flight of the Conchords, this book offers the perfect introduction for students and scholars in music and media studies seeking to understand the role of music in comedy onscreen and how it relates to the wider culture.

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Yes, you can access Music in Comedy Television by Liz Giuffre, Philip Hayward, Liz Giuffre,Philip Hayward in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Music. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138193581
eBook ISBN
9781317273561
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Series Foreword
  7. Introduction: Music in Comedy Television
  8. 1 Sesame Street as a Musical Comedy-Variety Show
  9. 2 And Now for Something Completely Different (Sounding): Monty Python’s Musical Circus
  10. 3 That Junky Funky Folk Vibe: Quincy Jones’s Title Theme for Sanford and Son
  11. 4 Once in a Lifetime: Music, Parody, and Comical Incongruity in The Young Ones
  12. 5 The Mockumentary Sitcom: The Discomfort of Fake Realism
  13. 6 “Must Hear TV”: Scrubs and the Pop Soundtrack
  14. 7 Music in Comedy Television from the Composer’s Perspective: Getting “the Answers You’re Not Looking for” in an Interview with David Schwartz
  15. 8 “I Told You I Was Freaky”: Gender, Genre, and Parody in the Songs of Flight of the Conchords
  16. 9 The Lonely Island’s “SNL Digital Short” as Music Video Parody: Building on Saturday Night Live’s Legacy
  17. 10 Sketching Out Portlandia’s Musical Layers
  18. 11 Inverting Expectations: Mozart in the Jungle and Humor with Classical Musicians
  19. 12 Pure and Simple: Music as a Personal and Comedic Resource in Car Share
  20. Afterword
  21. Contributors
  22. Index