Beatles and Humour, The: Mockers, Funny Papers, and Other Play - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Katie Kapurch is Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. Her previous books include Blackbird: How Black Musicians Sang the Beatles into Being-and Sang Back to Them Ever After (2023) and Victorian Melodrama in the Twenty-First Century: Jane Eyre, Twilight, and the Mode of Excess in Popular Girl Culture (2016).

Richard Mills is Programme Director and Associate Professor in English Literature and Popular Culture at St Mary's University, Twickenham, UK. He is the author of The Beatles and Fandom (Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-editor, with Lee Brooks and Mark Donnelly, of Mad Dogs and Englishness (Bloomsbury, 2017) and, with Katie Kapurch and Matthias Heyman, The Beatles and Humour (Bloomsbury, 2023).

Matthias Heyman is Assistant Professor in the Arts at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Lecturer at Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Belgium, where he is the Vice-chair of Research. He also is Postdoctoral Fellow at LUCA School of Arts, Leuven and freelances as a double bassist. He has a forthcoming monograph on jazz bassist Jimmie Blanton.