This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture

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 US 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 J. McAllister; Irony of absence: literary and 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; Bibliography; Index.