LEADER 03124nam 22005655u 450 001 9911049141903321 005 20230823020800.0 010 $a1-83764-484-5 024 7 $a10.3828/9781837645107 035 $a(CKB)4970000000226667 035 $a(Liverpool University Press)10.3828/9781837645107 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32546932 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32546932 035 $a(OCoLC)1399385405 035 $a(EXLCZ)994970000000226667 100 $a20230509c2023uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mam|a 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCultural History of British Alternative Cabaret (1979-1991) 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cLiverpool University Press$d2023 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.;) 225 1 $aLiverpool Studies in the Politics of Popular Culture Series 311 08$a1-80596-636-7 311 08$a1-83764-510-8 327 $aCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. An Introduction -- 2. A Journey through Time -- 3. The Outsider -- 4. An Ethnography of Alternative Cabaret -- 5. CAST, New Variety, and the Hackney Empire -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Many people will be familiar with the term 'alternative comedy' and what it was or what it wasn't. They will remember its anarchic and confrontational nature. and its rejection of the traditional comedy aesthetic. Yet, few will remember that the scene and the physical spaces, the clubs, were collectively referred to as 'alternative cabaret'. Ray Campbell's book represents the first cultural studies investigation of the alternative cabaret scene of the 1980s and early 1990s. Campbell unearths the events before alternative cabaret and charts its rise throughout the 1980s and eventual transformation into the stand-up comedy industry we recognize today. To do this, Campbell makes use of autoethnography, ethnography and archive study to uncover alternative cabaret's past and interrogate its many claims.The book departs from the position of other works on the period because it firmly situates alternative cabaret within the post-punk countercultural milieu of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Campbell also discusses how political theatre groups like CAST and movements like Rock Against Racism helped to shape the aesthetic and the discourses of the movement. 410 0$aLiverpool Studies in the Politics of Popular Culture Series 517 $aCultural History of British Alternative Cabaret 610 00$acomedy 610 00$aclub 610 00$aalternative 610 00$aculture 610 00$asociety 610 00$apopular 610 00$apunk 610 00$apoetry 610 00$aAvant-garde performance 676 $a792.7094209048 700 $aCampbell$b Ray$01887051 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911049141903321 996 $aCultural History of British Alternative Cabaret (1979-1991)$94522876 997 $aUNINA