LEADER 02715nam 22004095 450 001 996580170103316 005 20240306123113.0 010 $a0-520-39134-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520391345 035 $a(CKB)29577794500041 035 $a(DE-B1597)672978 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520391345 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929577794500041 100 $a20240306h20242024 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRisible $eLaughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound /$fDelia Casadei 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[2024] 210 4$dİ2024 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 311 08$a9780520391338 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One. Laughter without Reason -- $t1. Unknown Causes, or the Limit of Logos -- $t2. Risible Creatures -- $t3. Laughter as (Sound) Reproduction -- $tPart Two. Laughter as Mass Sound Reproduction -- $t4. George W. Johnson's Laughable Phonography -- $t5. Contagion -- $t6. Canned Laughter, Gimmick Sound -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Risible explores the forgotten history of laughter, from ancient Greece to the sitcom stages of Hollywood. Delia Casadei approaches laughter not as a phenomenon that can be accounted for by studies of humor and theories of comedy but rather as a technique of the human body, knowable by its repetitive, clipped, and proliferating sound and its enduring links to the capacity for language and reproduction. This buried genealogy of laughter re-emerges with explosive force thanks to the binding of laughter to sound reproduction technology in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing case studies ranging from the early global market for phonographic laughing songs to the McCarthy-era rise of prerecorded laugh tracks, Casadei convincingly demonstrates how laughter was central to the twentieth century's development of the very category of sound as not-quite-human, unintelligible, reproductive, reproducible, and contagious. 606 $aLaughter$xHistory 606 $aSCIENCE / Acoustics & Sound$2bisacsh 615 0$aLaughter$xHistory. 615 7$aSCIENCE / Acoustics & Sound. 700 $aCasadei$b Delia, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$00 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996580170103316 996 $aRisible$94147503 997 $aUNISA