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

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

By: Ian Brodie
Narrated by: M.J. McGalliard
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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: 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 room full 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.

©2014 University Press of Mississippi (P)2015 Redwood Audiobooks Customs & Traditions Social Sciences Stand-up Shows Comedy Stand-Up Dark humour Celebrity Funny Jokes

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"A highly insightful, eloquently written study that explains, through application of folkloristic methodology, how stand-up comedians create an atmosphere of intimacy and evoke laughter from strangers. This will be a valuable addition to the libraries of scholars in a number of fields, as well as readers who enjoy stand-up comedy and want to learn how it works." (Elizabeth Tucker, author of Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses)

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Sounds like it’s narrated by Siri

I started listening to this book and after five minutes I could take no more. It was like listening to a computerised voice. I’m sure the book is interesting to read but it’s painful to listen to .

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