Working To Laugh: Assembling Difference In American Stand-Up Comedy Venues

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
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 182 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0739189557
• | ISBN-13: 9780739189559