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Publication details [#55196]

Gibson, Andy. 2011. Flight of the Conchords: Recontextualizing the voices of popular culture. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15 (5) : 603–626.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
comedy | popular culture | recontextualization | song
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Journal WWW
www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper discusses how Flight of the Conchords, a New Zealand Folk-comedy duo, stylizing notorious singers and their music, adapt their phonetic style to that of different target personas, whilst conserving their own voices as comedians in the process.