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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136136103321

Titolo

Standing up, speaking out : stand-up comedy and the rhetoric of social change / / edited by Matthew R. Meier and Casey R. Schmitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-65773-2

1-317-32894-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

MeierMatthew R

SchmittCasey R

Disciplina

792.76

Soggetti

Stand-up comedy - United States

Comedy - History and criticism

English language - United States - Rhetoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Stand-up and identity -- pt. II. Stand-up, race, and culture -- pt. III. Stand-up and politics -- pt. IV. Standing up, breaking rules.

Sommario/riassunto

In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little has been paid to the stand-up. This collection is an attempt to further cultivate the growing conversation about stand-up comedy from the perspective of the rhetorical tradition. It brings together literatures from rhetorical, cultural, and humor studies to provide a unique exploration of stand-up comedy that both argues on behalf of the form s capacity for social change and attempts to draw attention to a series of otherwise unrecognized rhetors who have made significant contributions to public culture through comedy."