Subversive Rock Humorists


In Rebels Wit Attitude: Subversive Rock Humorists, music writer and professor Iain Ellis throws a spotlight on the history of humor as a weapon of anti-establishment rebellion, paying tribute to the great rebel humorists in American rock history and investigating comedy and laughter as the catalyst and main expressive force in these artists work. (Soft Skull)

There's a chapter on The Velvet Underground, and we couldn't resist.


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