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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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Büch, Michel (auth)
Fformat: Electronig Pennod Llyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
Cyfres:American Frictions 5
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Crynodeb: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?
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:1 electronic resource (262 p.)
ISBN:9783110752748
9783110752670
9783110752823
Mynediad:Open Access