Editing Tarring and feathering (section)

===Music===
Tarring and feathering appeared as a topic in music already in the 18th century: A verse from an early (British) version of "[[Yankee Doodle]]" relates to an incident involving a "Yankee" [[Minuteman]] named Thomas Ditson of [[Billerica, Massachusetts]]:<ref>{{cite web |author1=Dick Hawes |author2=Bill Brimer |title=Yankee Doodle Story |url=https://bcmm.us/yankee-doodle-story/ |website=Billerica Colonial Minute Men |access-date=2 September 2018 |location=The Thomas Ditson Story |date=16 August 2017}}</ref><ref name=Levy/>
::Yankee Doodle came to town,
::For to buy a firelock,
::We will tar and feather him,
::And so we will [[John Hancock]].

More recently it has been used in the title of several works: The second track of the cult British Indie band [[Cardiacs]] 1987 Mini [[Long Playing Record|LP]] ''[[Big Ship (Cardiacs)|Big Ship]]'' was titled "Tarred and Feathered".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cardiacs.com/reviews/album-reviews-songs-for-ships-and-irons/ |title=Album Reviews – Songs for Ships and Irons |work=[[Melody Maker]] |first=Mick |last=Mercer |date=March 1987 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060226212210/http://www.cardiacs.com/reviews/album-reviews-songs-for-ships-and-irons/ |archive-date=26 February 2006}}</ref> The [[music video]] for this song was infamously played on [[Channel 4|Channel 4's]] ''[[The Tube (1982 TV series)|The Tube]]'', and was remarked for the song's unusual nature and the band's unusual visual appeal.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thequietus.com/articles/12737-cardiacs-a-little-man-and-a-house-and-the-whole-world-window-25-anniversary |title=A Little Man & A House & The Whole World Window By Cardiacs Revisited |last=Kitching |first=Sean |date=3 July 2013 |website=[[The Quietus]] |access-date=24 May 2023 |quote=I was first exposed to Cardiacs' oddly compelling world when the video to 'Tarred And Feathered' aired on ''The Tube'' on April 17, 1987.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Mnemonic |title=Readers recommend: eccentric songs – results |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=17 April 2014 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/17/readers-recommend-eccentric-songs-results |access-date=25 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2021/02/25/members-of-napalm-death-voivod-municipal-waste-child-bite-yakuza-cover-cardiacs/ |title=Watch Members of Napalm Death, Voivod, Municipal Waste, Child Bite & Yakuza Cover Cardiacs |last=Lake |first=Daniel |date=25 February 2023 |website=[[Decibel (magazine)|Decibel]] |access-date=25 May 2023 |quote=[...] record their version of a 1987 freakazoid song by English rock band Cardiacs. In its original incarnation, "Tarred and Feathered" was hilarious and intricate and unhinged.}}</ref> The 2010 [[Extended play|EP]] from [[The Hives]] is called ''[[Tarred and Feathered (EP)|Tarred and Feathered]]''.<ref name=Hesling>{{cite book |last=Hesling |first=Lucas |date=2020 |title=The Hives: Ils sont la loi, vous êtes le crime |publisher=Camion Blanc |chapter=Tarred and Feathered |isbn=9782378482169}}</ref> The 2005 album ''[[Gutter Phenomenon]]'' by metal band [[Every Time I Die]] contains an "explosive" song punningly titled "Guitarred and Feathered".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.clevescene.com/music/every-time-i-die-1491895 |title=Music News: Every Time I Die - ''Gutter Phenomenon'' (Ferret) |last=Miller |first=Andrew |date=24 August 2005 |website=[[Cleveland Scene]] |access-date=5 June 2023 |quote=Except for one lamentable lapse (an incongruously peppy "whoa-oh" chant during the otherwise explosive "Guitarred and Feathered"), Gutter Phenomenon maintains the intensity throughout}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Sharpe-Young |first=Garry |author-link=Garry Sharpe-Young |date=2005 |title=New Wave of American Heavy Metal |publisher=Zonda Books |pages=135–136 |isbn=9780958268400}}</ref><ref name="BLABBERMOUTH.NET 2005">{{cite web |title=Gutter Phenomenon |website=[[Blabbermouth.net]] |date=29 August 2005 |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/cdreviews/gutter-phenomenon/ |access-date=12 May 2023}}</ref>

Tarring and feathering is featured within the lyrics of songs such as in the [[Merle Haggard]] hit "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers" (1964). In lyrics by [[Liz Anderson]], there is a line saying "he "should be taken out, tarred and feathered" for his foolishness" of trusting the woman who would betray and leave him. Haggard's biographer David Cantwell found that the performance influenced how this image was perceived: In a version by [[Roy Drusky]] it comes off "as self-effacing", but when "Haggard sings the line, it's as if he's identifying exactly the punishment he deserves."<ref>{{cite book |last=Cantwell |first=David |author-link= |date=2022 |title=The Running Kind - Listening to Merle Haggard |publisher=[[University of Texas Press]] |chapter=Someone Told His Story In A Song |isbn= 9781477325698}}</ref> To be tarred and feathered is mentioned in the chorus of the song "To Kingdom Come", from [[The Band]]'s album ''[[Music from Big Pink]]'' (1968), as one of the fates to be feared.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://somethingelsereviews.com/2013/07/04/across-the-great-divide-the-band-to-kingdom-come-from-music-from-big-pink-1968/ |title=The Band, "To Kingdom Come" from 'Music from Big Pink' (1968): Across the Great Divide |last=Deriso |first=Nick |date=4 July 2013 |website=Something Else! |access-date=9 May 2023 |quote=When they enter the final stanza (howling "tarred and feathered, yeah!")  [...] In many ways, it is here that the legend of ''Big Pink'' begins to pick up steam.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Marcus |first=Greil |author-link=Greil Marcus |date=2015 |title=Mystery Train - Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music |publisher=[[Penguin Publishing Group]] |chapter=Stranger Blues |edition=6th |isbn=9780698166684}}</ref> The 1996 [[R.E.M.]] song "[[New Adventures in Hi-Fi|Be Mine]]" contains the lyric "I'll ply the tar out of your feathers," purportedly a reference to tarring and feathering.<ref name="Genius 1996">{{cite web |title=R.E.M. – Be Mine |website=[[Genius (company)|Genius]] |date=9 September 1996 |url=https://genius.com/Rem-be-mine-lyrics |access-date=13 May 2023}}</ref> In satirist [[Tom Lehrer]]'s album ''[[An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer]]'' (1959), his introduction to the song ''We Will All Go Together When We Go'' mentions an acquaintance of his who was "financially independent having inherited his father's tar-and-feather business".<ref name="NKU Home Page">{{cite web |title=An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer |website=[[Northern Kentucky University]] |url=https://www.nku.edu/~longa/public_html/heros/lehrer/evening.html |access-date=13 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/bibliog/music-folk.html#_Tom_Lehrer |title=Human Rights Music Bibliography by Artist- Folk |website=Human Rights Library |publisher=[[University of Minnesota]] |access-date=24 May 2023}}</ref>

Depicting artists being tarred and feathered has also been used as a means of promoting music: The [[avant-garde]] [[electronic music]] artist [[Fad Gadget]] (Frank Tovey) often performed on stage while tarred and feathered. He was photographed in tar and feathers for the cover of his album ''[[Gag (album)|Gag]]'' (1984). Artist Martynka Wawrzyniak described the function of this device as allowing "you to step outside of your comfort zone and do something different".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/12860/1/fg-ft-remembering-frank-tovey |title=FG.Ft: Remembering Frank Tovey |last=Cusack |first=Jenny |date=2 March 2012 |website=[[Dazed]] |access-date=2 April 2023 |quote='''Martynka Wawrzyniak:''' I tarred and feathered Fad Gadget's "Gag" vinyl record. Frank Tovey was known for performing tarred and feathered.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RDWYDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Fad+Gadget%22+%22Tarred+and+feathered%22+OR+%22tar+and+feathers%22+Gag&pg=PT208 |title=Music, Memory and Memoir |isbn=9781501340659 |last1=Edgar |first1=Robert |last2=Mann |first2=Fraser |last3=Pleasance |first3=Helen |date=27 June 2019|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA }}</ref><ref name="Zevolli">{{cite book |last=Zevolli |first=Giuseppe |editor-last1=Beaven |editor-first1=Zuleika |editor-last2=O'Dair |editor-first2=Marcus |editor-last3=Osborne |editor-first3=Richard |date=2019 |title=Mute Records: Artists, Business, History |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Academic]] |pages=38–39 |chapter='One Man's Meat': Fad Gadget's Social Commentary and Post-Punk |isbn=978-1-5013-4060-4}}</ref> Tovey himself "interpreted the shock value of his presentations as 'commercial suicide'" as they were "challenging, or degrading to the pop star ideal". Popular music scholar Giuseppe Zevolli saw this as the artist "exploring the link between his role as a performer and the power of media to influence their audiences."<ref name="Zevolli" /> The Hives band members were likewise depicted on the album cover of ''Tarred and Feathered'', presented in [[newspaper]] style, and subtitled "Cheating with other people's songs!", as the EP contained only songs covered from other artists.<ref name=Hesling/>