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A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy
By (author) Ian Brodie
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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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Publisher | University Press of Mississippi
Published date | 28 Feb 2016
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 270
Dimensions | 228 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 380g
ISBN | 978-1-4968-0794-6
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BISAC | performing arts / comedy
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