CSU-Carig
Music in comedy television : notes on laughs /
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- viii, 204 pages ; 24 cm.
- Routledge music and screen media series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: music in comedy television / Liz Giuffre -- Sesame Street as a musical comedy-variety show / Kathryn A. Ostrofsky -- And now for something completely different (sounding): Monty Python's musical circus / Liz Giuffre and Demetrius Romeo -- That junky funky folk vibe: Quincy Jones's title theme for Sanford and son / Amedeo D'Adamo -- Once in a lifetime: music, parody and comical incongruity in the Young ones / Phillip Hayward and Matt Hill -- The mockumentary sitcom: the discomfort of fake realism / Carlo Nardi -- "Must hear TV": scrubs and the pop soundtrack / Alexander Koch -- Music in comedy television from the composer's perspective: getting "the answers you're not looking for" in an interview with David Schwartz / Liz Giuffre -- "I told you I was freaky": gender, genre and parody in the songs of Flight of the conchords / Kirsten Zemke -- The Lonely island's "SNL digital short" as music video parody: building on Saturday night live's legacy / Penny Spirou -- Sketching out Portlandia's musical layers / Emma Driver and Sarah Attfield -- Inverting expectations: Mozart in the jungle and humor with classical musicians / Stan Beeler -- Pure and simple: music as a personal and comedic resource in Car share / Brett Mills and Mark Rimmer
9781138193581
Television music -- History and criticism.
Television .
781.546 / M9734 2017
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: music in comedy television / Liz Giuffre -- Sesame Street as a musical comedy-variety show / Kathryn A. Ostrofsky -- And now for something completely different (sounding): Monty Python's musical circus / Liz Giuffre and Demetrius Romeo -- That junky funky folk vibe: Quincy Jones's title theme for Sanford and son / Amedeo D'Adamo -- Once in a lifetime: music, parody and comical incongruity in the Young ones / Phillip Hayward and Matt Hill -- The mockumentary sitcom: the discomfort of fake realism / Carlo Nardi -- "Must hear TV": scrubs and the pop soundtrack / Alexander Koch -- Music in comedy television from the composer's perspective: getting "the answers you're not looking for" in an interview with David Schwartz / Liz Giuffre -- "I told you I was freaky": gender, genre and parody in the songs of Flight of the conchords / Kirsten Zemke -- The Lonely island's "SNL digital short" as music video parody: building on Saturday night live's legacy / Penny Spirou -- Sketching out Portlandia's musical layers / Emma Driver and Sarah Attfield -- Inverting expectations: Mozart in the jungle and humor with classical musicians / Stan Beeler -- Pure and simple: music as a personal and comedic resource in Car share / Brett Mills and Mark Rimmer
9781138193581
Television music -- History and criticism.
Television .
781.546 / M9734 2017