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The Left Turns That Led to ‘Taking Funny Music Seriously’

On March 12, 2020, I gave a book talk at California State University, Bakersfield, celebrating the release of Weird Al: Seriously. I began that book because I had wanted to confront prejudices against funny music—ideas that humor in music was somehow less significant than so-called “serious” music or classical music….

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Journal of Modern Literature Call-for-Papers: “Caribbean Literatures and the Environment”

Topics addressed may include oceanic literature; literary depictions of climate change, rising seas, and pollution; and narratives of monoculture, extraction, and extinction.

JML publishes essays on twentieth- and twenty-first-century global literature….

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