Spike Milligan's Accordion.

Spike Milligan's Accordion.

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, con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cousins, Rick
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Brill, 2016.
Series:Consciousness, literature and the arts 49
Subjects:
Goon show (Radio program)
Space and time on radio.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Space and time on radio
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Spike Milligan's Accordion: The Distortion of Time and Space in The Goon Show; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prelude: A Few Words of Explanation; Introduction; "Good morning, sir, welcome to Chapter Two": A Few Words on the Structure of This Book; 1 The Accordion under Construction: The Origins of Spike Milligan's Comedic Style, and of The Goon Show; 1 Portrait of The Milligan as a Young Goon: Laying the Groundwork for a Personal Vision of Comedy; 2 "Well, that's the end of that corny routine": The Goon Show's Sketchy Beginnings.
  • 3 New Producer, New Approach: Peter Eton and the Transformation of The Goon Show4 The Goon Show's 'Classic' Format: Dramatic Structures Mature in the Service of Comedic Immaturity; 5 Little Cardboard-and-String Heroes: The Goon Show's Regular Cast of Characters; 6 "This is the BBC": The Goon Show vis-à-vis Mainstream Practices in Contemporary Radio Drama; 6.1 "What is this Go On Show?" The BBC's Official Narratives and The Goon Show's Place in Them; 6.2 "Meantime, back in the BBC torture room": The Goon Show's Deviations from BBC Radio's Dominant Aesthetic for Dramaturgy and Performance.
  • 7 "Who are you, Ben Lyon?": The Goon Show's Thematic Links to Popular Culture between the Two World Wars2 The Accordion Beating Time: Temporal Distortions in The Goon Show; 1 Looking Backward to Look Forward Again: The Goon Show's Narrative Framework; 2 One Narrative, Many Narrators: The Goon Show's Democracy of Diegesis; 3 The Fragmentation of Time-Frames in The Goon Show and Its Effects on Narrative; 4 That Sabrina Sure Gets Around: The Free Flow of Anachronisms in The Goon Show; 5 Musical Interludes in The Goon Show: Interruptions in Narrative Flow and Opportunities for Temporal Distortion.
  • 6 The Ageless Aging Process of The Goon Show's Characters7 "I'm for the dreaded deading this week alright": The Impermanence of Death in The Goon Show; 8 The Passage of Time and the Completion of Tasks: Two Sides of the Same Coin; 9 Sounds and Their Effects on Temporality; Interruption 1: Milligan's Laws of Time; 3 The Accordion Stretching in All Directions: Spatial Distortions in The Goon Show; 1 Setting the Scene: A Few Words on the "Landscape" of Radio Theatre; 2 Mise en Scène as Mise sans Scène: The Goon Show as 'Black Box' Theatre for Radio.
  • 3 Contents Not Necessarily to Scale: The Variability of Container Capacity in The Goon Show4 "My Lord, a piece of junk being found on the King's Highway, it is declared treasure trove": The Appearance of Objects Exactly When, and Exactly Where, They Are Needed; 5 The Conundrum of Self-Duplication and Rapid Spatial Displacement, or, Being in Two Places at Once is Easier When You Don't Know It Can't be Done; 6 Perceptual Fields Forever: Milligan's Use of Simultaneous Multiple Perspectives within the Same Scene; 6.1 The Perception of Doors.

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