Working to Laugh
Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues
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436 g
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238x160x24 mm
Beschreibung:
Through intensive fieldwork lasting over eighteen months, this book demonstrates that the stand-up comedy venue is a dynamic space where social actors contest and reproduce dominant understandings of race, class, and gender in ways that transcend the joke-work performed on stage.
Through intensive fieldwork lasting over eighteen months, this book demonstrates that the stand-up comedy venue is a dynamic space where social actors contest and reproduce dominant understandings of race, class, and gender in ways that transcend the joke-work performed on stage.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Into the Field: The Comedy Kitchen and Helter SkelterChapter 3: Affective Labor and The Comedy KitchenChapter 4: Affective Labor and Helter SkelterChapter 5: Assembling Order in Stand-Up ComedyChapter 6: Stand-Up Comedy, Urban Nightlife, and Affective-Cultural AssemblagesChapter 7: Coda - SoleilChapter 8: ConclusionAppendix A: MethodologyBibliography