Whiteface Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness

Whiteface Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness

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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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Main Author: Büch, Michel (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
Series:American Frictions
Subjects:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
General studies
Improv Comedy
Whitefacing
Black Cultural Production
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