In Spring 2014, I taught a 1-credit seminar entitled, “Sounds of Laughter: Musical Comedy in the United States.” During this time (and after the seminar had finished), I wrote numerous blog posts about various artists and topics. Links to the full seminar materials are posted below.
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Links for “Sounds of Laughter” Materials
- Introduction
- Week 1: Entering the Conversation/Incongruity/Contemporary
- Week 2: Assumptions, Views, and Debates/Race and Ethnicity/2000s
- Week 3: Quotations and Summaries/Feminism/1990s
- Week 4: Addressing Sources/Postmodernism/1980s
- Week 5: Signaling/Rockism and Funk/1970s
- Week 6: Objections and Concessions/Counterculture/1960s
- Week 7: Relevance and Importance/Camp/1950s (Rock and Roll)
- Week 8: Transitions/Canon/1940s – 1950s (Jazz)
- Week 9: Metacommentary/Subversion/pre-1950s
- Week 10: Questions/Review/Summary
- Quote Library