Spike Milligan's accordion : : the distortion of time and space in the Goon show / / by Rick Cousins.
“It’s all rather confusing, really” was one of the catchphrases used by Spike Milligan in his ground-breaking radio comedy program The Goon Show. In a series of mock-epics broadcast over the course of a decade, Milligan treated listeners to a cosmology governed by confusion, contradictions, fluidity...
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| Superior document: | Consciousness, literature and the arts 49 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016] |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 pages) :; color illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- The Accordion under Construction: The Origins of Spike Milligan’s Comedic Style, and of The Goon Show
- The Accordion Beating Time: Temporal Distortions in The Goon Show
- The Accordion Stretching in All Directions: Spatial Distortions in The Goon Show
- Children Teach Lessons on the Accordion: Preoperational Cognitive Strategies in The Goon Show
- The Accordion Plays a New Tune before Anyone Can Write It Down: Anticipations of Postmodernism in The Goon Show
- Conclusion: The Accordion is Packed Away
- Sources
- Index.