{"product_id":"9781628461824","title":"A Vulgar Art : A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49756192178424,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":215.42,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781628461824-1.jpg?v=1783726967","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9781628461824","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}