Author: Thomas M. Kitts File Type: pdf An essential part of human expression, humor plays a role in all forms of art, and humorous and comedic aspects have always been part of popular music. For the first time, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor draws together scholarship exploring how the element of humor interacts with the artistic and social aspects of the musical experience. Discussing humor in popular music across eras from Tin Pan Alley to the present, and examining the role of humor in different musical genres, case studies of artists, and media forms, this volume is a groundbreaking collection that provides a go-to reference for scholars in music, popular culture, and media studies. While most scholars, when considering humors place in popular music, tend to focus on more literate forms, the contributors in this collection seek to fill in the gaps by surveying all kinds of humor, critical theories, and popular musics. Across eight parts, the essays in this collection explore topics both highbrow and low, including ul l Parody and satire l l Humor in rock and global music l l Gender, sexuality, and politics l l The music mockumentary l l Novelty songs l ul Humor has long been a fixture of the popular music soundscape, whether on stage, in performance, on record, or on film. The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor covers it all, presenting itself as the most comprehensive treatment of the topic to date. **About the Author Thomas M. Kitts is Professor of English at St. Johns 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 Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Author: Stanley I. Greenspan File Type: pdf In the childhood of every human being and at the dawn of human history there is an amazing and, until now, unexplained leap from simple genetically programmed behavior to language, symbolic thinking, and culture. In The First Idea, Stanley Greenspan and Stuart Shanker explore this missing link and offer brilliant new insights into two longstanding questions how human beings first create symbols and how these abilities evolved and were transmitted across generations over millions of years. From fascinating research into the intelligence of both human infants and apes, they identify certain cultural practices that are vitally important if we are to have stable and reflective future societies.

Author: Catherine McNicol Stock File Type: pdf Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history. In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and overview of the conservative face of rural America. She paints a comprehensive portrait of a long line of rural activists whose crusades against big government, bug business, and big banks sometimes spoke in a language of progressive populism and sometimes in a language of hate and bigotry. Rural Radicals breaks down the populism expressed by activists, confronts our conventional notions of right and left, and allows us to understand political factionalism differently. **Amazon.com Review A historian at Connecticut College, Stock identifies a long-standing strain of extremist rage in the rural heartland of America which informs the current right-wing militia groups, the survivalists, and the Christian Identity zealots. She suggests that ignorance and denial of this cultural are what made the Oklahoma bombing such a shock. She cites examples like Nathaniel Bacons rebel group in colonial days, and the uprising led by Daniel Shays in Pennsylvania in George Washingtons time, as exemplars of hatred of federal authority and federal taxes, and of an ugly rural cultural isolationism. In time, fed by economic insecurity, gun craziness, and crude machismo, this would manifest itself in hatred of Indians, blacks, Mormons, Mexicans, and Asians--an enduring contradiction of American idealism. From Publishers Weekly How is it that whites from the rural heartland, long romanticized in popular culture as the salt of the American earth, have come to make up the United States most violent domestic terrorist movements, including militias, Identity Christians and other hate radicals? In the wake of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, allegedly the work of blue-eyed Timothy McVeigh, historian Stock has attempted to trace the lineage of todays extremist white rural politics. She draws clear links between contemporary hate groups and a long tradition of rural political movements characterized by a fierce commitment to the rights of small landowners and family farmers, and by a culture of vigilantism. This tradition has never fit into urban categories of left and right. As far back as colonial times, she points out, rural Americans have organized simultaneous opposition, often violent, to elite Eastern landowners and elite Eastern government such high-school textbook examples as Shayss Rebellion, the Whisky Rebellion and the Grange movement are just a few illustrations of the point. Rural Radicals is a wild ride, particularly for readers yet unfamiliar with the recent trend in history of conducting research from the perspective of less powerful groups yet it vividly demonstrates the value of this approach. Photos not seen by PW. 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Author: Dolly Kyle File Type: epub You think you know Hillary and Bill Clinton pretty well. After all, they have been in the public eyefrom Arkansas to the White House and beyondfor over forty years. Dolly Kyle met former president Clinton (Billy as she calls him) on a Hot Springs golf course when she was eleven and he was almost thirteen. It was colpo de fulmine (the thunderbolt) at first sight. Their friendship grew throughout high school and college. It became a decades-long affair that lasted despite marriages and politics all the way to the threshold of the White Housewhen she became a political liability, and he threatened to destroy her, as Hillary had done to so many of his other women over the years. What you know about the Clintons is probably limited to the pleasantries that the mainstream media have chosen to share with you. Hillary the Other Woman pulls no punches in describing the way media magic makes Clinton stories disappear. Have you heard about The RICO (Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) federal lawsuit that Kyle filed against Clinton and cronies while he and co-president Hillary were in the White House? The racial discrimination lawsuits filed by African-Americans against Clinton as governor of Arkansas? Cintons orders for the Arkansas State Police to stop and search vehicles driven by Hispanics? Thousands of young African-American men given long prison sentences under the three strikes laws pushed by co-presidents Bill and Hillary? The co-president Clintons pandering to minorities with a subtle form of race baiting with their welfare agenda? The racist names they call Jesse Jackson behind his back? Hillary the Other Woman is not only about the politics of the Arkansas gubernatorial years and the famous two for the price of one presidency. It also provides a perspective on Arkansas life that formed the backdrop and training ground for the Clintons in their later crimes, their gangster-like threats and intimidation of political enemies, and their arrogant belief that they are above the law. You will see the connection between Hillarys current email scandal and her shredding of documents when they left the Arkansas governors mansion. You will realize that the Clinton Foundation is the new international version of the money laundering and bribes that you glossed over as Cattlegate. You will read clear, concise, entertaining accounts that put the multitude of Clinton scandals into everyday perspective. Finally, you will be privy to the Clinton truth suppression techniques that allowed them to get away with all of it. Until now **Review [A] bombshell book ---Daily Mail About the Author Dolly Kyle, childhood friend of Bill Clinton, never expected to be dragged into a national controversy. She knew the truth about the co-presidents Bill and Hillary Clinton she never changed her story about the affair that made her privy to behind-the-scenes information and she was not afraid to testify. After graduating from SMU School of Law, Dolly practiced real estate law in Texas, where she was named a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation for outstanding contributions to the administration of justice. That honor was limited to one-third of 1 percent of Texas lawyers. Dolly was the founder and executive director of Lawyers for Affordable Housing that provided pro bono legal services for low-income homeowners and for non-profit housing groups such as Habitat for Humanity. She was also a founding member of the Dallas Affordable Housing Partnership and Dallas City Homes. She is currently turning some of her housing experiences in Dallas into her fourth novel. Teri Schnaubelt is a Chicago-based stage, on-camera, and voice actor as well as oil painter and photographer. She has voiced over 100 books for New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, in addition to helping independent authors get their stories heard.