Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues
- ISBN-10
- 0739189565
- ISBN-13
- 9780739189566
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 194
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-01-21
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Authors
- James M. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi
Description
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.
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