03281nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001600172072001700188072001700205072002300222072001700245072001600262100008600278245010300364250001800467264007900485300003200564336002600596337002600622338003600648347002400684490004300708505032000751520131201071650001902383650003702402650002002439650002702459650002802486710003402514773002602548776003602574776003602610830005002646856004602696912001402742912001402756999001702770978-3-031-55932-7DE-He21320251030112011.0cr nn 008mamaa240425s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315593279978-3-031-55932-77 a10.1007/978-3-031-55932-72doi 4aPN1922-1929 7aJFCA2bicssc 7aASZB2bicssc 7aPER0150002bisacsh 7aJBCC12thema 7aATXD2thema1 aSedgwick, Claire.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut97576510aInequality in Contemporary Stand-Up Comedy in the UKh[electronic resource] /cby Claire Sedgwick.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXI, 96 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aPalgrave Studies in Comedy,x2731-43400 aChapter 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.  aThis 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. . 0aComedy.968021 0aEthnologyxGreat Britain.968605 0aCulture.95915914aComedy Studies.96802424aBritish Culture.9686072 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303155931008iPrinted edition:z9783031559334 0aPalgrave Studies in Comedy,x2731-434097576640uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55932-7  aZDB-2-LCM  aZDB-2-SXL  c59384d59384