Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues by Thomas, James M.

Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780739189559)

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Format: Hardcover
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Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues by Thomas, James M.

Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues

$114.00
Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues by Thomas, James M.

Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues

$114.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: James M. Thomas
ISBN-10: 0739189557
ISBN-13: 9780739189559
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 01/21/2015
Pages: 182
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d
By James M. Thomas
By James M. Thomas
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James M. Thomas is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi.

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