Taking a stand : contemporary US stand-up comedians as public intellectuals /

Stand-up comedians have a long history of walking a careful line between serious and playful engagement with social issues. Lenny Bruce questioned the symbolic valence of racial slurs, Dick Gregory took time away from the stage to speak alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and more recently, Tig Notaro...

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Other Authors:	Champion, Jared N. (Editor), Kunze, Peter C. (Peter Christopher) (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021].
Subjects:	Stand-up comedy > United States > History and criticism. United States > Intellectual life > 20th century. United States > Intellectual life > 21st century.

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