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Title This is the sound of irony : music, politics and popular culture / edited by Katherine L. Turner.
Publisher London : Routledge, [2016]
Copyright ©2015


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Description xii, 257 pages : music ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9781472442598 hardcover
1472442598 hardcover
Note Originally published: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing, 2015.
"An Ashgate book." --front cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.
Contents Introduction. The sound of irony-the irony of sound / Katherine L. Turner -- The meat in a humbug sandwich : the irony of want in California gold rush music / Meredith Eliassen -- I ain't got long to stay here : double audience, double irony in u.S. slave songs and spirituals / G. Yvonne Kendall -- Strange fruit : cognitive linguistics and pragmatics of ironic comprehension / Katherine L. Turner -- Musical irony and identity politics : Austro-German Jewish refugees in republican China / Jeremy Leong -- Irony, myth, and temporal organization in the early songs of Bob Dylan / Timothy Koozin -- Burning down freedom's road : the strange life of Brown Baby / S. Alexander Reed -- God, flag, and country : ironic variations on a metaphysical theme / Sabatino DiBernardo -- The view from below : early hip hop culture as ironic perception / Chadwick Jenkins -- Ironic consciousness in the early Polish punk music / Anna G. Piotrowska -- Irony, intentionality, and environmental politics in the music of Cake / David Ferrandino -- Paul Anka sings Smells like teen spirit / Mimi Haddon -- Wagner, nazism, and evil in Apt Pupil / Matthew McAllister -- Irony of absence : literary & technological devices in the rap of T-Pain / Andrew Shryock -- Listener-senders, musical irony, and the most disliked YouTube videos / Joseph S. Plazak -- The narrowing gyre of music recommendation / Damien McCaffery.
Series Ashgate popular and folk music series.
Library Class Music B30
Subject Irony in music.
Popular music -- History and criticism.
Other Author Turner, Katherine L., editor.

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