Fr. 192.00

A Vulgar Art - A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy

English · Hardback

Shipping usually within 2 to 3 weeks (title will be printed to order)

Description

Read more










THE FIRST EXAMINATION OF STAND-UP COMEDY THROUGH THE LENS OF FOLKLORE

In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, leveraging 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 such as literature or theatre, 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 and shows 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 re-create 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 sociocultural distances between the performer and the audience.

Ian Brodie, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, is associate professor of folklore at Cape Breton University. He has served as president of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada and is currently the editor for Contemporary Legend: The Journal of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.

About the author










Ian Brodie is associate professor of folklore at Cape Breton University. He has served as president of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada and is currently editor for Contemporary Legend: The Journal of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research.

Summary

The first examination of stand-up comedy through the lens of folklore

Product details

Authors Ian Brodie
Publisher University press of mississipp
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.12.2014
 
EAN 9781628461824
ISBN 978-1-62846-182-4
No. of pages 240
Series Folklore Studies in a Multicul
Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.