Whiteface Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness
This study originates in the observation that improv comedy or improvised theater has such a vast majority of white people practicing it, while other improvisational or comedic art forms (jazz, freestyle rap, stand up) are historically grounded in and marked as Black cultural production. What it is...
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| Formato: | Electrónico Capítulo de libro |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2022
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| Colección: | American Frictions
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| Acceso en línea: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
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| Sumario: | This study originates in the observation that improv comedy or improvised theater has such a vast majority of white people practicing it, while other improvisational or comedic art forms (jazz, freestyle rap, stand up) are historically grounded in and marked as Black cultural production. What it is about improv that makes it such a white space? Can an absence be an object of study? If so, what is there to study? Where should one look? |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 electronic resource (262 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9783110752748 9783110752670 9783110752823 |
| Acceso: | Open Access |