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Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues
James M. Thomas
Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues
James M. Thomas
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.
182 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | January 21, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9780739189559 |
Publishers | Lexington Books |
Pages | 182 |
Dimensions | 160 × 238 × 24 mm · 436 g |
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