Fritz Spiegl's MuSick Notes: A Medical Songbook
Fritz Spiegl's MuSick Notes: A Medical Songbook
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Fritz Spiegl's MuSick Notes: A Medical Songbook by Fritz Spiegl
Had enough of the day to day grind? Welcome to the alternative world of jingle, ballad, and dirge. MuSick Notes: A Medical Songbook gives you a glimpse into the past with this collection of songs commonly sung in Victorian and Edwardian parlors. Providing a unique social history of medicine, these songs chide and tease doctors for their pomposity and the mysteries of their practice. In addition, the book includes some of the first advertising jingles touting the latest cure-alls. In this 'pre-modern' era, the fledgling principles of systematic medicine were largely unheard, untried, and most certainly untrusted. Those that did surface in the popular press seemed too strange to be real, and became irresistible targets for joyful scorn. From the miracle cure touted in the musical advertisement 'Ju-Jah', to the dangers of dieting discussed in 'The Thinnest Girl I Know', every song explores an aspect of contemporary attitudes on medicine and health. With his trademark well-res earched commentary, both informative and amusing, Fritz Spiegl presents a unique posy of riotous, corny, tongue-twisting, and ingenious songs that give us insight into the role of medicine and quackery in the lives of our Victorian and Edwardian forebears. A fascinating compendium of musical numbers, MuSick Notes: A Medical Songbook demonstrates how the public can get its own back on the doctors.
Fritz Spiegl's many books include Keep Taking the Tabloids, a diatribe against the abuse of English commonly found in our popular press, two gravestone-shaped books A Small Book of Grave Humor and Dead Funny, InWords and OutWords, The Joy of Words, Mediawrite/Mediaspeak (the language of the press and broadcasting), and Music through the Looking-Glass (musical terms and professional jargon). He also produced Scouse International (the Liverpool dialect in five languages, including Japanese) to accompany four earlier volumes of Lern Yerself Scouse.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781842140864 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842140868 |
| Titel | Fritz Spiegl's MuSick Notes: A Medical Songbook |
| Autor | Fritz Spiegl |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2002-02-22 |
| Seitenanzahl | 296 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
| Hinweis | Nicht verfügbar |