The Ironic Musical Edge: Using Songs to Present and Question Myths
Professors never have enough time to cover everything they would like to teach. If the temptation in literature survey courses is to whittle the reading list down to a few canonical texts, the temptation in culture courses is to reduce “American Culture” or “Canadian Culture” to facts and figures,...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2016-06-01
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Professors never have enough time to cover everything they would like to teach. If the temptation in literature survey courses is to whittle the reading list down to a few canonical texts, the temptation in culture courses is to reduce “American Culture” or “Canadian Culture” to facts and figures, important dates in history, and so on. This paper argues that ironic songs can efficiently introduce important information about a country’s myths and sense of self, while simultaneously questioning those myths. After a discussion of syllabus agonies of choice, the paper discusses irony, then irony in music, before finishing with an examination of The Arrogant Worm’s comic song “Canada’s Really Big.”
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| spelling | doaj.art-dbe0786c24ec433982e862139e4fa68f2023-01-18T09:32:49ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)ELOPE1581-89182386-03162016-06-0113110.4312/elope.13.1.99-110The Ironic Musical Edge: Using Songs to Present and Question MythsJason Blake0University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts Professors never have enough time to cover everything they would like to teach. If the temptation in literature survey courses is to whittle the reading list down to a few canonical texts, the temptation in culture courses is to reduce “American Culture” or “Canadian Culture” to facts and figures, important dates in history, and so on. This paper argues that ironic songs can efficiently introduce important information about a country’s myths and sense of self, while simultaneously questioning those myths. After a discussion of syllabus agonies of choice, the paper discusses irony, then irony in music, before finishing with an examination of The Arrogant Worm’s comic song “Canada’s Really Big.” https://journals.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/6137Arrogant Wormsculture courseironyirony in musicculture and society courses |
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| title | The Ironic Musical Edge: Using Songs to Present and Question Myths |
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