Inequality in Contemporary Stand-Up Comedy in the UK - Bog af Claire Sedgwick - Hardback

Inequality in Contemporary Stand-Up Comedy in the UK - Claire Sedgwick

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,..