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Spike Milligan's Accordion

Spike Milligan's Accordion

Cousins, Rick

Hardcover

Literary CriticismRadioGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 9004323708
ISBN13: 9789004323704
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 13 2016
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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 and uncertainty. In The Goon Show's universe, time and space expand and contract seemingly at will and without notice.

The worldview featured in The Goon Show looked both backward and forward: backward, in the sense that it paralleled strategies used by schoolchildren to understand time and space; forward, in the ways it anticipated and prefigured a number of key features of postmodern thought.

Winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award 2017 of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research.

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