03545nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-55932-7 DE-He213 20251030112011.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240425s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031559327 978-3-031-55932-7 10.1007/978-3-031-55932-7 doi PN1922-1929 JFCA bicssc ASZB bicssc PER015000 bisacsh JBCC1 thema ATXD thema Sedgwick, Claire. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75765 Inequality in Contemporary Stand-Up Comedy in the UK [electronic resource] / by Claire Sedgwick. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 96 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Comedy, 2731-4340 Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding Comedy as a Cultural Industry -- Chapter 2 : Comedy, Diversity, and the Hegemonic Comedian -- Chapter 3: Exploring Inequality in Comedy in the East Midlands and Challenging Inequality -- Chapter 4: COVID-19, Precarity and Comedy -- Chapter 5: Conclusion: The Future of Comedy. This Pivot explores the cultural economy of comedy in the UK, looking specifically at the links between industry practices and structures and who produces comedy in the UK. The research is based on interviews with comedians in the East Midlands; significantly, this demographic has been historically under-researched in studies of precarity, where the East Midlands is typically overlooked in discussions of arts funding and access in favour of a more simplistic north/south divide narrative. Similarly, whilst there has been increased discussion of the precarity of the creative and cultural industries, as well as media articles on the difficulty of breaking into comedy as a member of a marginalised group, there has been relatively little academic research to support this. While Friedman’s work in particular has been helpful for understanding the link between comedy producers, class and taste making, there has been less attention paid to the sociologies of work within comedy. This book fills these gaps in research by exploring the experiences of comedians in the East Midlands, contributing to the rich body of scholarship on inequality in the cultural industries and promoting a better understanding of the impact of structural inequalities and precarity on access to the cultural industries. . Comedy. 68021 Ethnology Great Britain. 68605 Culture. 59159 Comedy Studies. 68024 British Culture. 68607 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031559310 Printed edition: 9783031559334 Palgrave Studies in Comedy, 2731-4340 75766 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55932-7 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 59384 59384