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Working to Laugh - Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues (Hardcover)
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Working to Laugh - Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues (Hardcover)
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For decades, stand-up comedy has been central to the imbrication of
popular culture and political discourse, reshaping the margins of
political critique, and often within the contexts of urban
nightlife entertainment. In Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference
in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues, James M. Thomas (JT) provides
an ethnographic analysis of urban nightlife sites where this
popular form of entertainment occurs. Examining the relationship
between the performance, the venue, and the social actors who
participate in these scenes, JT demonstrates how stand-up venues
function as both enablers and constrainers of social difference,
including race, class, gender, and heteronormativity, within the
larger urban nightlife environment. JT's analysis of a professional
comedy club and a sub-cultural bar that hosts a weekly comedy show
illuminates the full range of stand-up comedy in the American
cultural milieu, from the highly organized, routinized, and
predictable format of the professional venue, to the more
unpredictable, and in some cases, cutting edge format of the
amateur show.
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