“More Truth than Poetry”: Parody and Intertextuality in Early American Political Song
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Musical parody was integral to early American political culture. Focusing on political songs designated “parodies” in early American newspapers, this article demonstrates how parodists representing competing political parties balanced mimesis and critique to mock political adversaries, refute opponents’ arguments, and expose political “truths.” These parodists used mimesis, structural manipulation, reductive dichotomies, exaggerated claims, and extreme levels of intertextuality in groups of related parodies. As erudite satire declined in appeal, parodists carried elements of early American humour into more accessible genres. While individual parodies may seem ephemeral, a holistic examination demonstrates the genre’s integrality and adaptation within early American political culture.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it