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James M. Thomas

Working to Laugh

Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues

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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, inclu… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7391-8955-9
  • EAN: 9780739189559
  • Produktnummer: 17188943
  • Verlag: Lexington Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 182 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.4 cm 425 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 425

Über den Autor


James M. Thomas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. His research has been featured in international, peer-reviewed journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, and Ethnography. His first monograph is entitled Working to Laugh: Assembling Race and Heteronormativity in an American Stand-Up Comedy Club (Lexington, 2014)

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