Ramalho, Joana Rita;
(2020)
The blasphemous grotesqueries of The Tiger Lillies.
In: Bloom, Clive, (ed.)
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic.
(pp. 881-903).
Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
At a moment when the relationship between the subversive fringe and the politically correct is being widely debated, the role of shocking, non-mainstream music demands reconsideration, particularly in light of the ethical and political questions it poses about the representation of those who operate on the edge of society. My investigation draws on the central idea in Perry Meisel’s The Myth of Popular Culture (2010) – that low culture closely dialogues with high art – in order to analyse British dark cabaret trio The Tiger Lillies, whose work epitomises the coming together (or the violent clashing) of high and low. Their music takes us on bawdy, brash and blasphemous journeys that pull us into a world of atmospheric beauty and distasteful sacrilege. I inquire whether their satirical repertoire condones or condemns the complex issues it exposes, that is, whether it trivialises human tragedy or can otherwise be understood as a mode of resistance to conformity and supra-imposed official norms.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | The blasphemous grotesqueries of The Tiger Lillies |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-030-33136-8 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_52 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_52 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | dark cabaret, punk, Soho, low culture, brothel perspective, intergenericity, intermediality, intertextuality, carnivalesque, camp, otherness, radical humour, sacrilege |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10199244 |
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