Whiteface
Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness
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EnglishAbstract
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?
Keywords
Improv Comedy; Whitefacing; Black Cultural Production; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTZ General studies and General knowledgeISBN
9783110752748, 9783110752670, 9783110752823Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
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Berlin/Boston, 2022Imprint
De GruyterSeries
American Frictions,Classification
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
General studies and General knowledge
Pages
262
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