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11 Jan 2024

From Duck Soup to Duck Rock: On Malcolm McLaren and the Marx Brothers

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From Duck Soup to Duck Rock   (SA/2024)     I.   Although Malcolm McLaren's album Duck Rock [1] was dedicated to his hero Haywire Mac ...
27 Oct 2023

Notes on Charlie Chaplin's Closing Speech to 'The Great Dictator'

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Charlie Chaplin as the Jewish Barber and  Adenoid Hynkel in The Great Dictator (1941)     I.    There's probably only one thing worse i...
10 Oct 2022

Loony Tunes

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Clockwise from top left:  Haywire Mac / Napoleon XIV / Jaz Coleman / Siouxsie Sioux     There are almost as many songs about being mad or go...
10 Aug 2018

From the Land of Cockaigne to the Big Rock Candy Mountains

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Land of Cockaigne  (1567)  Oil on panel (52 x 78 cm)   First conceived in the imagination of medi...
5 May 2013

The Big Rock Candy Mountains

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  I have always been strongly attracted to what we might refer to as the hobo ethic, most beautifully set out in the songs of Harry M...
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