By Kurt Baer
Jason's Commentary: Where it's useful, I'd like to provide commentary for the more obscure jokes (which might be most/all of them). Charles Keil is an ethnomusicologist with a noted interest in grooves and applied ethnomusicology. Kurt drew his inspiration from a 1982 article, in which Keil states: "Tragedy, then, is the theft of what was once collective ritual-song-dancepoetry, and the staging of this energy in a form that fits class society and its guiding ideology.In the century of advanced capitalism and imperialism the kings must survive and the peoples must die... "Keil, C. 1982. Applied Ethnomusicology and a Rebirth of Music from the Spirit of Tragedy. Ethnomusicology 26, no. 3: 407-411.
