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A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy
- Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World
- Narrated by: M.J. McGalliard
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Byron Chen
- 04-08-16
Narration is bad
The book content doesn't seem bad but the narration makes it so that you can't stand to listen. It's like they fed the book into a 1970's movie robot. Buyer beware.
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- Harold Levine
- 03-14-17
exeptional
What made the experience of listening to A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy the most enjoyable?
if you are just planning to do open mike nights this book is for you- don't expect to get rich but a great guide
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- Jeffrey Stevens
- 06-15-19
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 .