Assistant Professor: 29 books
Working to Laugh
Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
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. Situated within the...