Satire and whatnot.
Dec. 13th, 2008 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
healingmirthSo, Tom Lehrer, yeah? I already knew The Masochism Tango (and had been trying, unsuccessfully, to attach the memory to an artist few weeks ago. Not sure whether I got distracted or if my google-fu was really, really weak) and Poisoning Pigeons in the Park.
Random things from Wikipedia:
Departure from the Scene:
There is an urban legend that Lehrer gave up political satire when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Henry Kissinger in 1973. He did say that the awarding of the prize to Kissinger made political satire obsolete, but has denied that he stopped doing satire as a form of protest, and asserts that he had actually stopped several years earlier.
Legacy:
Lehrer has commented that he doubts his songs had any real effect on those not already critical of the establishment: "I don't think this kind of thing has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted... I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War."
I don't really have anything to say about this. I just found it, and it's been a long time since I've listened to or read any old...anything. Just, the more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess.
Send the Marines
Random things from Wikipedia:
Departure from the Scene:
There is an urban legend that Lehrer gave up political satire when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Henry Kissinger in 1973. He did say that the awarding of the prize to Kissinger made political satire obsolete, but has denied that he stopped doing satire as a form of protest, and asserts that he had actually stopped several years earlier.
Legacy:
Lehrer has commented that he doubts his songs had any real effect on those not already critical of the establishment: "I don't think this kind of thing has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted... I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War."
I don't really have anything to say about this. I just found it, and it's been a long time since I've listened to or read any old...anything. Just, the more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess.
Send the Marines
