{"product_id":"the-beatles-and-humour-mockers-funny-papers-and-other-play-9781501379352","title":"The Beatles and Humour: Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Beatles are known for cheeky punchlines, but understanding their humor goes beyond laughing at John Lennon's memorable \"rattle your jewelry\" dig at the Royal Variety Performance in 1963. From the beginning, the Beatles' music was full of wordplay and winks, guided by comedic influences ranging from rhythm and blues, British radio, and the Liverpool pub scene. Gifted with timing and deadpan wit, the band habitually relied on irony, sarcasm, and nonsense. Early jokes revealed an aptitude for improvisation and self-awareness, techniques honed throughout the 1960s and into solo careers. Experts in the art of play, including musical experimentation, the Beatles' shared sense of humor is a key ingredient to their appeal during the 1960s-and to their endurance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beatles and Humour\u003c\/i\u003e offers innovative takes on the serious art of Beatle fun, an instrument of social, political, and economic critique. Chapters also situate the band alongside British and non-British predecessors and collaborators, such as Billy Preston and Yoko Ono, uncovering diverse components and unexpected effects of the Beatles' output.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Kapurch \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. Her books include \u003ci\u003eVictorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eNew Critical Perspectives on the Beatles \u003c\/i\u003e(2016 with Kenneth Womack), and \u003ci\u003eBlackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). Forthcoming books include\u003ci\u003e Disney Plus Beatles\u003c\/i\u003e with Bloomsbury Academic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMills \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Lecturer in Literature and Popular Culture at St Mary's University, UK. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Beatles and Fandom: Sex, Death and Progressive Nostalgia\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eMad Dogs and Englishness\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). Forthcoming books include \u003ci\u003eThe Beatles and Black Music: Post-colonial Theory, Musicology and Remix Culture\u003c\/i\u003e with Bloomsbury Academic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthias Heyman \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor in the Arts at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Lecturer at Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, where he is the Vice-chair of Research. He also is Postdoctoral Fellow at LUCA School of Arts, Leuven and freelances as a double bassist. He has a forthcoming monograph on jazz bassist Jimmie Blanton.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199364628754,"sku":"9781501379352","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e1073e42-0ef3-4f2c-b0f4-017c6c3b7e27.jpg?v=1744876050","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-beatles-and-humour-mockers-funny-papers-and-other-play-9781501379352","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}