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Cut Every Corner: Intertextuality and Parody in the Music of The Simpsons. MUSICultures 47 : 94-1 15.  \nCut Every Corner: Intertextuality and Parody in the Music of The Simpsons  \nDURRELL BOWMAN  \nAbstract: This article reworks ideas about parody, postmodernism, and television from such critical and cultural theorists as Linda Hutcheon, Jason Mittell, and Jonathan Gray to contextualize the wide variety of parody and intertextuality in the music of the animated TV show The Simpsons. It explores several categories of the show’s music, such as: variations of cartoon themes, songs, instrumental underscoring, and guest musicians. This article particularly uses specific episodes of The Simpsons to highlight parodies of the show’s own theme, movie music, themes from other TVshows, and so on. The show’s music thus functions as a kind of court jester or king’s fool.  \nRésumé : Cet article revient sur les idées des théoriciens critiques de la culture tels que Linda Hutcheon, Jason Mittell et Jonathan Gray au sujet de laparodie, du postmodernisme et dela télévision, pour mettre en contexte le large éventail de parodies et d’intertextualité quel’on trouve dans la musique de la série animée télévisée, Les Simpsons. Il examine plusieurs catégories musicales de cette série, telles que les variations sur le thème de la musique dudessin animé lui-même, les chansons, la musique de fond instrumentale et les musiciensinvités. Cet article recourt à certains épisodes de Les Simpsons en particulier pour souligner les parodies du thème musical du dessin animé lui-même, de musiques de films, de musiquesd’autres séries ou émissions de télévision, etc. On y découvre que la musique de cette sériedétient en quelque sorte lafonction de bouffon ou defou du roi.  \nThe King’s Fool: Postmodern Parody, Television, Music, and The Simpsons  \nLinda Hutcheon suggests that a new form of parody—citing something only to make fun of it—can be accomplished through such postmodern means as“ironic quotation, pastiche, appropriation, or intertextuality” (1989: 93) . She  \nThis article has accompanying videos on our YouTube channel. You can find them on the playlist forMUSICultures volume 47, available here: [https://bit.ly/MUSICultures-47-Bowman. With the ephemerality of web-based media in](https://bit.ly/MUSICultures-47-Bowman. With the ephemerality of web-based media in)[ ](https://bit.ly/MUSICultures-47-Bowman. With the ephemerality of web-based media in)[mind](mind), we warn you that our online content may not always be accessible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.  \nBowman: Intertextuality and Parody in the Music of The Simpsons 95  \ndoubts that this can happen in television, though, saying: “Most television, in its unproblematized reliance on realist narrative and transparent representational conventions, is pure commodified complicity…” (10; emphasis in original) . Television, however, changed a great deal in the 1990s and 2000s. Jason Mittell discusses the idea that American TV from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s“will be remembered as an era of narrative experimentation and innovation, challenging the norms of what the medium can do”(2006: 30) . The animated television comedy The Simpsons (1989- ) provides an example of such challenges, as it combines serial, sitcom (situational-comedy) elements with episodic, culturally critical highlights that frequently make use of references from elsewhere. The show’s creators positioned it as semi-postmodern and loosely realist, and most of its references cite things in order to make fun of them. The Simpsons includes intertextuality and parody—often walking a fine line between the two—and the show’s writers, composers, and guest voices have explored these things extensively in its music.  \nJonathan Gray usefully compares The Simpsons to the context and function of the king’s fool in medieval courts—a merry rogue or safety valve who chips away at authority while also risking the rebellion that the","cbCaibU8HnfgarR7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibU8HnfgarR7","pdf",413240,22,"English","# Abstract\n# Parody, postmodernism, and television context\n# Categories of the show’s music\n## Cartoon theme variations\n## Songs, instrumental underscoring, and guest musicians\n# Episode-based examples of intertextual parody\n## Parody of the show’s own theme\n## Parody of film and other TV themes\n# The court-jester function of music","[{\"question\":\"How does the article explain parody in The Simpsons through theory?\",\"answer\":\"It draws on Linda Hutcheon’s ideas about postmodern parody, as well as scholarship by Jason Mittell and Jonathan Gray, to contextualize how references are used for humor and meaning.\"},{\"question\":\"Which musical categories does the article analyze in The Simpsons?\",\"answer\":\"It examines variations of cartoon themes, songs, instrumental underscoring, and the contributions of guest musicians.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does music play in the show’s parody according to the article?\",\"answer\":\"Music is presented as functioning like a court jester or king’s fool, undermining authority through dense and frequent acts of parody and ridicule.\"}]","Cut Every Corner - Intertextuality and Parody in the Music of The Simpsons | PDF",55]