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035			_a(OCoLC)1241825941
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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aHaggins, Bambi _eautore
245	1	0	_aLaughing Mad : _bThe Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America / _cBambi Haggins.
264		1	_aNew Brunswick, NJ : _bRutgers University Press, _c[2007]
264		4	_c©2007
300			_a1 online resource (288 p.) : _b32
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction Enter Laughing -- _tChapter 1 From Negro to Black Coming of Comic Age in the Civil Rights Era -- _tChapter 2 Murphy and Rock From the “Black Guy” to the “Rock Star” -- _tChapter 3 Post-Soul Comedy Goes to the Movies Cinematic Adjustments and [Pop] Cultural Currency -- _tChapter 4 Crossover Diva Whoopi Goldberg and Persona Politi -- _tChapter 5 Dave Chappelle Provocateur in the Promised Land -- _tEpilogue Laughing Sad, Laughing Mad -- _tNotes -- _tIndex -- _tAbout the Author
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aPrior to the civil rights movement, comedians performed for audiences that were clearly delineated by race. Black comedians performed for black audiences and white comedians performed for whites. Yet during the past forty-five years, black comics have become progressively more central to mainstream culture. In Laughing Mad , Bambi Haggins looks at how this transition occurred in a variety of media and shows how this integration has paved the way for black comedians and their audiences to affect each other. Historically, African American performers have been able to use comedy as a pedagogic tool, interjecting astute observations about race relations while the audience is laughing. And yet, Haggins makes the convincing argument that the potential of African American comedy remains fundamentally unfulfilled as the performance of blackness continues to be made culturally digestible for mass consumption. Rather than presenting biographies of individual performers, Haggins focuses on the ways in which the comic persona is constructed and changes across media, from stand-up, to the small screen, to film. She examines the comic televisual and cinematic personae of Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, Flip Wilson, and Richard Pryor and considers how these figures set the stage for black comedy in the next four decades. She reads Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock as emblematic of the first and second waves of post-civil rights era African American comedy, and she looks at the socio-cultural politics of Whoopi Goldberg's comic persona through the lens of gender and crossover. Laughing Mad also explores how the comedy of Dave Chappelle speaks to and for the post-soul generation. A rigorous analytic analysis, this book interrogates notions of identity, within both the African American community and mainstream popular culture. Written in engaging and accessible prose, it is also a book that will travel from the seminar room, to the barbershop, to the kitchen table, allowing readers to experience the sketches, stand-up, and film comedies with all the laughter they deserve.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650		0	_aAfrican American comedians _vBiography.
650		0	_aAfrican American comedians _xBiography.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.36019/9780813542652
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813542652
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813542652/original
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