Working to Laugh

James M. Thomas

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015

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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.

ISBN-13
9780739189559
ISBN-10
0739189557
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year
2015
Publication date
2015-01-21
Pages
182
Dimensions
238x160x24
Weight
436