A Vulgar Art : A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy Hardback
by Ian Brodie
Part of the Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series series
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In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they recognize--""literature"" or ""theatre""; ""editorial"" or ""morality""--and analyze it accordingly.
A Vulgar Art begins with a more fundamental observation: someone is standing in front of a group of people, talking to them directly, and trying to make them laugh.
So this book takes the moment of performance as its focus, that stand-up comedy is a collaborative act between the comedian and the audience. Although the form of talk on the stage resembles talk among friends and intimates in social settings, stand-up comedy remains a profession.
As such, it requires performance outside of the comedian's own community to gain larger and larger audiences.
How do comedians recreate that atmosphere of intimacy in a roomful of strangers?
This book regards everything from microphones to clothing and LPs to Twitter as strategies for bridging the spatial, temporal, and socio-cultural distances between the performer and the audience.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:255 pages
- Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
- Publication Date:30/10/2014
- ISBN:9781628461824
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Unavailable
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:255 pages
- Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
- Publication Date:30/10/2014
- ISBN:9781628461824