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Folk songs, German. --- Humorous songs.

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Songs, Czech. --- Humorous songs --- Songbooks, Czech.

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Humorous songs --- Popular music --- Songs, English

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""Lily Hirsch's Taking Funny Music Seriously seeks to provide an engaging but sophisticated take on a complex, understudied phenomenon - musical humor - for a general audience. The book wears its erudition and research lightly, and makes excellent use of interviews with some of the hardest to reach of the masters of comedic music, most notably Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach) and Tom Lehrer, who, at 92, probably gives his last word on musical comedy in this volume." - Robert Fink, author of Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice Taking Funny Music Seriously scouts comedic music, a precious form of entertainment media during a time when many of us need a joke more than ever, with music, like pandemic parody songs, providing comfort, catharsis, and connection. Reclusive parody-song legend Tom Lehrer told author Lily E. Hirsch that artists can actually get the biggest laugh when audiences are "nervous" and "uncomfortable," so it makes sense that with worldwide high anxiety and isolation sharing a video that makes you laugh with funny music can be a lifeline. In its coverage of musical, comedic media, Taking Funny Music Seriously is an accessible and lively look at comedic music in various genres and by themes including "Bad Singing," "Tapping into Movie Music," and "Silly Love Songs.""-- "Take funny music seriously! Though often dismissed as silly or derivative, funny music, Lily E. Hirsch argues, is incredibly creative and dynamic, serving multiple aims from the celebratory to the rebellious, the entertaining to the mentally uplifting. Music can be a rich site for humor, with so many opportunities that are ripe for a comedic left turn. Taking Funny Music Seriously includes original interviews with some of the best musical humorists, such as Tom Lehrer, "the J. D. Salinger of musical satire"; Peter Schickele, who performed as the invented composer P. D. Q. Bach, the supposed lost son of the great J. S. Bach; Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome of the funny music duo Garfunkel and Oates; comedic film composer Theodore Shapiro; Too Slim of the country group Riders in the Sky; and musical comedian Jessica McKenna, from the podcast Off Book, part of a long line of "funny girls." With their help, Taking Funny Music Seriously examines comedy from a variety of genres and musical contexts-from bad singing to rap, classical music to country, Broadway music to film music, and even love songs and songs about death.In its coverage of comedic musical media, Taking Funny Music Seriously is an accessible and lively look at funny music. It offers us a chance to appreciate more fully the joke in music and the benefits of getting that joke-especially in times of crisis-including comfort, catharsis, and connection"--

Humor in music --- Humorous songs --- History and criticism