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Working to laugh : assembling difference in American stand-up comedy venues / James M. Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, James M., 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stand-up comedy--United States--History.
- Stand-up comedy.
- Popular culture--United States--History.
- Popular culture.
- Public spaces--United States--History.
- Public spaces.
- Cities and towns--United States--History.
- Cities and towns.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (183 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, [Maryland] : Lexington Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The comedy kitchen
- Into the field: the comedy kitchen and helter skelter
- Affective labor and the comedy kitchen
- Affective labor and helter skelter
- Assembling order in stand-up comedy
- Stand-up comedy, urban nightlife, and affective-cultural assemblages
- Coda : soleil
- Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-8956-5
- OCLC:
- 900783688
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