{"product_id":"a-vulgar-art-9781496807946","title":"A Vulgar Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST EXAMINATION OF STAND-UP COMEDY THROUGH THE LENS OF FOLKLOREIn 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 aud","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040603701591,"sku":"9781496807946","price":26.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496807946.jpg?v=1750947248","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-vulgar-art-9781496807946","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}