{"product_id":"9781626744059","title":"A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Vulgar Art\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eA Vulgar Art\u003c\/i\u003e 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\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":47134747853040,"sku":"9781626744059","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781626744059_p0.jpg?v=1763864702","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781626744059","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}